Merle Haggard - Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)

[MsLorner1]

Good old country music. Nothing like it.

[hushwashkeepit]

This is my favorite song by Merle Haggard! Yet he's my favorite country singer! I love country music!

[Roundhead70024]

What a tune!!!

[TheMainpain3]

Good old fashion country song.

[gingerlee7t7]

I used to listen to this growing up because my parents really liked his music and I know I do too.

[dimanche46]

mr. Haggard...just great and will last forever...i saw him in new jersey in the summer of 2005, just great, he made the opening to Bob dylan, what a concert...unforgerable. tks. for posting.

[rbain1865]

What a great way to start my day listening to Merle Haggard! Great song ty for posting!

[Hagfan789]

one of my kids favorites!

[beautifulsarah100]

Just got through watching Jones sing "Who's gonna fill their shoes" so I come over here to see two more shoes.

[agm4007]

k this is what i talk about good music. these new "stars" have no heart and barely any talent. you gotta know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody. i'm tired of this no talented artists who think they are all that.

[denisjl100]

@agm4007 this is the same kind of language my parents used about rock and roll in the fifties. we should learn to respect each others music. listen to what we like and not listen to what we don't like, live and let live

[mkl62]

Another #1 hit for Merle Haggard on the Country & Western charts. It was the 219th #1 C&W song of the Rock Era. It also hit #2 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts.

[ezrider0037]

This is real country!!!

[styx4ever1963]

Does anybody know who was singing the background music!

[dhowardscott]

Hey Brother, Do you have that 8 track player up there with you? You'll always be in my heart! I love you and I miss you!

[polaris692]

2 people don't know good music!

[lanettesg0re]

Such a good song, brings back childhood memories.

[texiban001]

You won't see some half assed "country" singer perform any song like this! Merle, Buck, Porter, etc., blows all the new country acts away! Hell, they even play Johnny Cash on alternative stations in Ireland!

[onebaud]

This song leaves me in tears. But it is beautiful and I love it.

[dhowardscott]

This song will always remind me of you! May you rest in peace Brother! I love you and I miss you! Dusty

[culpster53]

Awesome thanks for posting!!! Merle Haggard goes beyond "country' he was an entertainer and a one of the GREATEST!!!

[johnrunion]

is grandma harp on youtube? thanks.

[followthethread]

this song is how my life was my dad was blind but could play any instrument you could think of my mom sang and i played the bas. he made his life by playing music R.I.P DAD love you

[drmularkey]

38 #1 hits.

[DRAGULIO1978]

true family song

[MrWhitetrashj]

Do they play this cool song at wedding receptions?

[jmitchel422]

this song i have been listening too since i was two. its always been my favorite song. and everyone is right cause what the hell happened to country music.......

[jmitchel422]

this song i have been listening too since i was two. its always been my favorite song

[RockyTheEagle]

Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp,

Sister played the ringing tambourine.

Mamma couldn't hear our pretty music,

She read our lips and helped the family sing.

That little band was all a part of living,

And our only means of living at the time.

And it wasn't like no normal family combo,

'Cos Daddy Frank, the guitar man, was blind.

[shawnjones873]

this is the shit

[criticus69]

this is country! thank you merle!

[MsLadyComfort]

this is my favorite song

[spld1959]

Momma always said Merle was "The Poor Man's Poet" you can really hear it in his music. Great Artist!!

[Szbb667]

Why did he had to explain that the song explains itself? :)

[opticshepherd]

Merle used to stop in Ft. Smith Arkansas on occassions to play and rest in the mountains. My father had a supper club in the 1200 block of towson ave. The clubs name was Big John's supper club. Merle would knock and the door would open and he say "Big john I need a steak and something to drink ,yesterday I have a sondg and fifty cents". Of course there was no charge ,Merle made sure his manager tipped every employee from front to rear when the tab was actually 12.00 dollars..

[bubbasouth69]

I remember as very small boy listening to this one and "Mama's Hungry Eyes" and they were among my very favorites and remain so to this very day. I agree that real country is ripe for a comeback and there are many artistes out there who can bring it back - if they will all just stand up to this corporate fascist establishment that takes pop music and puts a little bit of fiddle and steel on it and calls it country. Let's all stand up to them!

[davidbaylorcarter]

i love merle so much.. he is so much better than the man in black..

[Articmewmew]

man the sad thing is this kind of music sang by the hag along with the possum and ol' hank would never have chance on the radio today we need a national radio station that played the good country and not the crud of today just the good ol' true blue country music. hell I grew up on the music out on the farm this was all you heard. long live the classics of country since they killed country music

[cindlu1010]

@Articmewmew what about web pierce

[MrBigdawg6228]

@Articmewmew I agree

[ecrtr3004]

This is a damn good song!!! Nothing short of greatness!!!

[NewMusicFan91]

An 18 year old Haggard fan from Ireland, and I never knew he sang this song until I typed Daddy Frank into youtube and Merle came up as a suggestion. I used to hear this on the radio and just wanted to hear it again, I had no idea he sang it

[cadesertrat]

It's a real shame in my view that "modern" country is just 70's rock and roll put to a country beat!! The CLASSIC Country is RIPE for "new" artists to bring it back!! Lets hear a new rendition of Lead Belly or Hank Snow!! "The classics" or "traditional country" is almost or past 40 years old now.. "The kids" need a revival!!!

[jhonny52758]

the best ever

[MervynCruddy]

This is true country.

[kennyIsaacs]

It was in 1972 that i first remember hearing this song. I couldn't get enough of it. I was already a hag fag @ Sixteen. I got to go to his sixtieth birthday party with Glen Keener. The best show i ever saw.

[horseyfarm37]

you know how people say HAGS when they want you to have a great summer...they probley got it from merle:D

[Jake520520]

I pledge allegiance to the HAG!

[CelestialWoodway]

Weird Trivia Fact; "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" is the same music as this with different lyrics!!

[Jazmckay]

Great Song! God bless the Hag.

[highnrising]

Why would a blind man be married to a deaf woman--How the hell would they communicate?

[daytripperxo]

@highnrising

love.

[Baxley001]

youre an idiot for thinkn like that

[Jazmckay]

@highnrising shut up!

[quiltbee]

totally love it...a great tune and treasure..thank you much.....

[TheCharl84]

to the person who said the band was shite u r a muppet you dont have a clue about music ''''''''

[leftfootof]

i bet the family band sucked. you ever heard a deaf person try to sing?

[coleyman1]

This song was written about the Maddox Brothers and Rose. I'm sure you've heard of them seeing how you're such a music critic.. They were on the opry along about the time Jumpin' Bill Carlisle and The Fruit Jar Five were popular. Oh, for your information, they were pretty good..

[TheCharl84]

brings back some memories from listening to my dad playing this song when i was kid when we were logging timber in penybryn north wales. this is proper music that has a meaning not like the manufactured pop shite of today ye har

[Factnotfictionpeople]

Used to drive my mates mad with this in our local pub! They were in to rock and stuff and this song (and Glenn Miller too!) used to really p*ss them off in the '70's - sorry guys! lol Ah, for the old style 'Juke-box'.........

[themattrixx]

Fantastic song. Merle Haggard is a national treasure.

[samue1988]

nothing like classic country im 21 an i allways like old song like this me you think about the past an how they live an nice aong to drink on lol

[Mojodoodle]

Great Post. My version was different, but the memories. Forgot about it, even. Excellent idea putting it on YT. Thanks.

[mattreeves18]

This Is Great Song Haggard Wrote About The Maddox Family. My Guitar Player Al Bruno, Is Also Doing Some Mighty Hot Picking In The Song.

[789pequignot]

great song

[ythis12680]

My Dad and Mom used to play this song when I was growing up we all sang along , it was special to us our last name is Frank , My parents are both gone now but the memories are just like yesterday.

[wendalls0312]

Thanks for posting this on You Tube my father used to play Merle Haggard when I was growing up and this was one of the songs he used to listen to...

[muzketrnl]

My Dad used to sing this to me.Brings back memories.Thanx!

[beagle5pup]

This is one of those songs that ALWAYS lifts my spirits. It gives me goosebumps while joining in with the refrain. The ladies singing the harmony and melody parts did a nice job.

[elizabethlee2008]

our dad sang this to us kids and so did uncle frank

[Hwdyshel21]

circumstances build caracter... & aMerle has caractor!

[chuckf2000]

What a great song. Just like all the others songs Merle wrote and sung.

[cartoonfan2008]

too bad country music isn't country no more.

Merle is one of the greatest legends of country music.

[MrRabbitman10]

@cartoonfan2008 i can't believe that people have forgot about these old stars

they made country

people that think taylor swift is country r crazy as hell

and by the way i'm only 14 but i love this music

[CrazyBlueElf]

i was about 12 13 years old when i started listing to the oldies and daddy frank was one of my favorites and im 23 now and i still love my oldies and it will never stop.merle haggard is one of my best

[storyteller6]

My dad and i used to listen to this all the time sadly he has passed but im sure hes up there still listening to this thanks for posting it

[jerryg65]

This sounds like the original--excellent . Thanks for posting

[jlgbgky]

That's because it *is* the original version.

Thanks for your comment.

[BloodNGutts]

Hahahahaha good answer