Merle Haggard will always be regarded as one of the true legends of country music. He 's an American standard in the same vein as Louie Armstrong, Muddy Waters and Billie Holiday.
I love this song, but I don't think we should be the bullys. America has always fought when it had to - not to put money in the hands of war profiteers.
If government is the people then that would insinuate that Robinson Crusoe on an Island alone work inherently be a government and that is certainly a ridiculous proposal. Anyway, "government is the negation of liberty" Ludwig von Mises.
Sorry if I'm shocking ! Maybe because I'm French, or I don't understand anything (or both), but this song looks like a reactionary hymn. Anyone may tell me if I'm right or wrong.
@fatkinson2011 No - and the reason I say this is because of the THREAT to my family and myself. 4 muslims gave out my name and address in a chat room ( don't ask me HOW they got that info ) it was not in my profile - they said they are coming to kill me. I am dissabled and had to get to my Dr's by cab. One muslim cab driver tried to kidnapp me, he said I would be a good wife. - NO D E P O R T all of them don't be the way they are..
He is a geniune legend, there's no disputing that. But this song is a little bit' "redneck" and hypocritical. But cool non-the-less. PS New Zealand is turning into a Fucked up Hole where political fuck-holes tell you it's OK and everything will be alright
@fatkinson2011 Nah, I'm not of any particular political persuasion. And don't get me wrong, I think Merle Haggard is the man, I just question patriotism when I'm not really sure if our Governments really give a toss about us.
@fatkinson1954 Governments in a sense are the country. They shape our daily lives, allow us or disallow us to have freedom of speech, dictate our laws, fund our education and health systems, etc. If you don't believe this is true, then all you're being loyal to is the ground you stand on and a name.
@metamorphosis67 - what I don't understand are the people who VOTED for Nobama. Power corupts, and total power corupts totaly. Nobama said ("the constatution is out of date, and should be eliminated -- and he was going to fullfill the dreams of his father ") his father dreamed of becoming adictator --- Some Americans fell asleep and voted for him. PLEASE watch my video USA Love It Or Leave It..- it expresses my feelings about the condition of the US now.
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson
or the 30 million illegal immigrants let in through deliberate open borders policy? They don't love it & they're never leavin' it & you have ZERO control over it.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
Don't you know that both those sorry-ass sides are on the same team by now? They all serve the private owners of the Federal Reserve. Read "Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustace Mullins & "Creature from Jekyll Island" by Edward Grffin, both available free online.
Did any republicans tell the 30 million illegal immigrants let in through deliberate open borders policy to leave? They don't love it & they're never leavin' it & you have ZERO control over it.
@AbsoluteMonarchist You are an idiot.No need wasting my time, answering all of your ate up with ignorance coments.America LOVE it or GET the heck OUT.Go back and join your terrorist group hammas. No one wants you here.
@starfish50 Don't confuse your extended family or tribe or 'country' with your occupied government & its military force deliberately comprised of members of your tribe.
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." Thomas Jefferson
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, & by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
I have ALWAYS been proud to say I am an American. Who was it that said " for the first time in my life, I'm proud to be an American"? Yet she wanted to live in the white house. Are you ashamed to say your an American, I sure AM NOT ASHAMED
A person has to fight for what they believe in. Other people from other countries will and do fight for their land, so why can't we fight for ours. If ya don't protect what's yours, someone will take it from you. Pure and simple so stop being spineless fools.
@cleanboostjunkie Don't confuse your extended tribe or 'country' with an obviously tyrannical government & its military force deliberately comprised of members of your tribe.
America was set up as an anti-collective, a country founded on individualism & resistance to government, not going along with it.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, & by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
@cleanboostjunkie what I am most upset about is this..The islamic terrorist group who were responsable for 9/11/2001 - have NOT been deported. They are ALL STILL HERE.While constatutional law abiding citizans are being molested by TSA.Homeland Insecurity. is nothing less than Fashisim.Yet the real terrorist followers of the Quran ( the real guidebook of terrorism ) are not even profioled.it is I N S A I N E USA Love It Or Leave It.
@MrRazorblade999. That's Roy Nichols on the telecaster. Roy never got the recognition he deserved for being a kick ass guitarist. Ranks up there with Don Rich. These boys are still being copied today. RIP Roy.
I love Cash, i love Waylon, i love Hank Williams Jr ,i love David Allan Coe, I love Dwight Yoakam. But i will tell you there ain't no one, and i mean no one like Merle Haggard. This is the real Outlaw of country.
@AbsoluteMonarchist You have that ass backwards... He is the only candidate that can be trusted to follow the Constitution, restore, and preserve our liberties. The rest are all big government globalists...
@AbsoluteMonarchist your an idiot. Ron Paul is the ONLY candate who wants to get our freedoms back. dummy go google NDAA - indefinate detention - who decides this Obama. He also now has the authority to have the military come haul you in. Ron Paul has a bill H.R.3758 that would get our freedoms back. YOU ARE STUPID
@starfish50 But you're only semi-literate my friend and I don't need to 'google' that because I read about it every day. Off you go now traitor scum. Go 'make friends with Iran' and killing bin Laden was 'wrong' because he was unarmed and killing Awlaki was 'against international law' - to which Ron Paul thinks US should be subject on this occassion only. Gaza is a 'concentration camp' and HAMAS a 'legitimate government' - all right scum, fuck off now.
and yes this is on my first set list when i play out and you wouldn't believe how many people agree and like it, some think its almost scary for me to sing this song but I stand proud and do it anyway listen to the words and think what the hell is going on today and ask yourself does history repeat itself or did Merl see this coming a long time ago? I started singing this song again at the start of this 2011 and will not stop cause this my country God Bless us ALL
How is it possible for this song to have 33 dislikes? Does it not tell it JUST LIKE IT IS? Does it not convey patriotism to the fullest? Does it not express what millions of American's feel when faggot bitches protest at a soldier's funeral? I'm very fucking confused here
@jscarter0110 Aside from the cussing I appreciate this comment. It really saddens me that people are allowed to disgrace a funeral. Whether it be a military funeral or any other's it's just something you don't do. You don't disgrace the dead that way, period! Love this song, Love Merle!
To all the little Taylor swift wanna bees and the zac brown freaks and the people who sing to their red solo cups THIS is country music not your hip hop pop Yankee friendly bullshit GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD BLESS COUNTRY MUSIC!!!
@bevisbeck2 ever listen to hank willams the 3rd?? give him a try, start with "low down" I think youll like it, also listen to not every body likes us. oh and any thing from lovesick broke and driften
This should be our new national anthem. Those idiots in washington are running this country into the ground. republican and democrats both. Goodbye capitalism and freedom, hello socialism then communism
unfortunately the song does not ring true to this generation.Merle sang when people were proud to be americans,patriotic flag flying citizens not like today where they burn the flag,disrepect the military and do not want to learn the language but will take all the freebies going.America was a great country and can still be great if we all vote for the right people
I agree I to love my country but the people running it have lost thier minds.. What is really sad is that we as a country have only ourselfs to blame. When you take the number of people in this country who our elagible to vote and devide it by the number that really do it is 1 % of the population that deside who runs this country. We who vote must encourage the rest to vote and we must raise our children teaching that voting is not just a privlage but a duty!!
cont...I am sure this goes a long way to prove your point and disprove mine. I would like to see you in a court of law telling the other side in response to his argument. We call that “argumentum ad hominem”. Pretty silly if you ask me. Kpavo and theguythatiam2000 may not agree with me, but they at least bring some valid points and I respect them for that,
All I said was that the poor and the visible minorities are well represented in US jails and on death row. I have not yet read anyone contradicting or bringing evidence to the contrary. I was just called a racist, that someone with attitudes like me never accomplish anything in their lifetime and that I should shut my mouth.
@HenriDeToi only in white countries will racism be solved by the genocide/ displacement of white people.
The US has the highest percentage of its population in prisons, no other country comes even close and 1 out of 9 non white citizens are incarcerated as of 2006.
Conclusion, people are not responsible with freedom to behave in a civil way towards other people.
Gag my mouth you say? In my country, I have the liberty of expression; don't you have it in your dear ole US of A? On the scale of the planet, being white, I am a "minority"!
In a free country, you should have the right to criticize, don't you think, eh Merle and sm1164?
@sm1164, I never said the rest of the world was perfect and neither are the US of A. I was just pointing a couple of flaws for your country to improve given that some of you think that it is SOOO GREAT! I just began by stating a fact in the most polite way; then I get insulted by this fatkinson jerk and you think I'm going to take it laying down? Just watch me!
Oh! - About sewing a Canadian flag on your backpack; I am not so sure anymore since we have this idiot Prime Minister Stephen Harper sucking up to the US of A.
cont...It is also known that more per capita from visible minorities are imprisoned and executed. We Canadians accept more immigrants from everywhere in the world than most other countries. How dare you call Canadians racists! If you decide to travel the world, I suggest you sew a Canadian flag on your backpack given that a US one would be more like a target.– I am not saying that there are not some Canadian that are racist; but we sure have no lessons to take form the US of A on racism.
I fail because I am not from the US of A? On the contrary, I can think and see outside the box. Most people outside of the US know that the common US Joe is ignorant about most of what goes on in other countries including his own. It is a well known fact that the US of A executes and imprisons more of its citizens than anywhere else in the World, glorifies violence and guns and has one of the most violent societies.
@HenriDeToi Yes, and the rest of the world is just peachily perfect, isn't it? Violence is strictly an American problem, of course. Naturally, it's America that must catch up with the rest of a very enlightened world. Henri, your prejudice is really a bore. Please gag your idiotic mouth and enjoy some Merle Haggard. Or find something a little less American.... And by the way, you are not a 'minority.' You are, like everyone else, a singular human being.
cont...When I want to go South, I go to Cuba, an option that was not available in your so-called FREE country until very recently. I have never smoked tobacco or pot and therefore have no pipe.
@fatkinson, I am not from the US and you don't know me from a hole in the ground. I might have accomplished more than you can ever dream of. Even Warren Buffet says that the rich in your screwed up country should pay more taxes. Freedom in your country is just an illusion. Just in the news today, 7% of americans don't not even make 11 thousand dollars a year. Mostly the poor and the minorities get imprisonned or executed.
@HenriDeToi I am not from the US" You already failed. How can you source something credible, and explain to me what my own country is? Mostly the poor and the minorities get imprisonned or executed....are you racist? I'm a minority. even i know whites hold the most in terms of population in prison. I knew you canadians were closet racist.
Don't get me wrong, I love Merle and this song that I love to sing; but it's much easier to sing when you are rich and famous in the US regardless if you were an ex con in another life. Tell that to the poor and and the imprisonned (and there are a lot in the US) if they are all for the status quo.
OMG IMA FIGHT DA LIBERALS CUZ THEY DONT LOVE AMURRIKA
Seriously. It's sad that conservatives claim to love democracy, yet spew shit like this. Merle Haggard has a decent voice and music style, but the lyrics are just upsetting.
Guess I better leave Amurrika since I don't love it.
@AHHHskina Got it all wrong. "An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in." Protest is American. Not loving your country is plain wrong, and when that line is crossed, Merle sings the rest of the song..... America has made some big mistakes, like all countries have. What makes America great is how far we've come, in spite of our past. If you concentrate on the bad, then you will hate whatever you're thinking about, and you should "leave it".
@AHHHskina . No i think he is saying dont take with one hand everything that is good and bash the same country with the other. Substitute your wife for country and guess how she would feel if you bad mouthed her all the time, but ran home to eat and live and love ... bet it would be more obvious to you then. What bothers people is individuals like you that complain but willing take everything. Sad ... I am not even from USA and i think it is great country - maybe appreciate what you.
The song has that groove to pick you up when your down....It will pull you out of that depression of negativity and bring you back on top....Great song to listen to on Friday at work when your roofing or slingin that hammer....heck even painting!!! My hats off to all hard working painter's out there...Put that music stroke into that brush when you trim out!!!!! Heck yeah!!!
Sounds like Merle didn't like folks objecting to the US military campaign against the people of Vietnam. But I guess he would've thought otherwise it would have been the Vietnamese occupying the USA and killing it's civilians.
as a legal immigrant from 1968 i soon fell in love with this country and like merle says your walking on the fighting side of me when you run this country down.
Michelle Bachmann, Bill O'Reilly, Jane Fonda, Rick Perry, Tim Dimwit Pawlenty, Rick Reacharound Santorum and other chickenshits avoided fighting in Vietnam. This song goes out to all pussies that are afraid of some good old war.
I feel the same way as Merle. If a gay or a lesbian wants to fight for America and serve as a seaman, airman, soldier or marine, I'd gladly kick the shit out of any unpatriotic son of a bitch who says gays can't enlist.
@MrPeckerwood69 You are more then right.There would be some piss ant that would be all butt hurt about it.Yet this same piss ant would be the very one the take the AMERICAIN FLAG and drag HER on the ground and that be all fine and well.Makes you want to throw up.GOD help our COUNTRY.
Merle Haggard is what I like to call "Politically Bi-Polar".... He says's he's a "Democrat" but has strong conservative vales on somethings. This is seen ALOT with my family back in the south.... "Die Hard Democrat" yet, when you're talking to them, they sound like my redneck conservative ass.
@mfdubgli Pretty much, it's just funny how my family back there still thinks their beloved party, is still their daddy and grandpas democratic party LOL.
@fishnut89 So being an open minded individual is a mental illness? Being too far on either side is wrong and unnatural. Most people are moderates that realize that some conservative values are better for some things and some liberal values are better for other things.
@doughboycod2 I totally agree with you......being open-minded,open-hearted, hospitable,non-judgemental, Creating "BALANCE" in our personal lives overflows into our communities and our country. I was raised in a wonderfull,safe homogenous(99.0% same ethnic background,same Christian religion,all white etc. etc. People would give you the shirt off their backs....but often there is a major fear of "strangers",different ways of thinking everything is,good/bad let's encourage freedom of expression!
@TheCowboymouth That's Bobby Wayne playing rhythm guitar (deceased last year), Dennis Rhomek playing bass (still alive and kicking in CA), Biff Adam on drums (also still with us), and Norman Hamlet back there playing tambourine (also still alive and still playing with Merle. He normally plays steel guitar and is the longest running Stranger).
Seriously, Merle Haggard, what a dork back in the 60's. Is this song support for Vietnam? Is it against Civil Rights Movement? I see nothing wrong with people standing up for their rights...that's part of the American story, and I do see something wrong with going to war, spending billions of dollars, and killing thousands of people for no valid reason. Goodbye Grover's Corners!
@luvvjewels No. We are for justified war. War is terrible. Justified war is a necessary evil. I must say that our two wars right now(especially Iraq) is UNjustified.
Another #1 hit for Merle Haggard on the Country & Western charts. It was the 181st #1 C&W song of the Rock Era. It also hit #1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts. Merle performed in Augusta, GA this past Saturday (August 6).
THIS SONG WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED IN SUDAN.
ALLAH BE PRAISED.
Fbozboz 9 hours ago
39 people are walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
CEOkiller 2 days ago
Merle Haggard will always be regarded as one of the true legends of country music. He 's an American standard in the same vein as Louie Armstrong, Muddy Waters and Billie Holiday.
sugarlandspringsteen 2 days ago
39 people are communists. lol
amyleighm 3 days ago
AN AMERICIAN ICON
rbm980 6 days ago
Hagg is a one of a kind American treasure
HawgtiedXX 1 week ago
I love this song, but I don't think we should be the bullys. America has always fought when it had to - not to put money in the hands of war profiteers.
bilbilvit 1 week ago
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THIS WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED IN SUDAN.
ALLAH BE PRAISED.
Fbozboz 1 week ago
If government is the people then that would insinuate that Robinson Crusoe on an Island alone work inherently be a government and that is certainly a ridiculous proposal. Anyway, "government is the negation of liberty" Ludwig von Mises.
Merl is fantastic
Wsgreeriii 2 weeks ago
Jingoism at its tuneful best.
jmdurant2000 2 weeks ago
Nothing like some good old Merle, GREAT STUFF!
mandospecial 2 weeks ago
Amen.
1989rdl 3 weeks ago
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I couldn't find Let's Go For A Drive by Duane Steele anywhere can you please post this song.
I haven't heard this song in a while since 2006 on country radio
randyknowsongt 3 weeks ago
Sorry if I'm shocking ! Maybe because I'm French, or I don't understand anything (or both), but this song looks like a reactionary hymn. Anyone may tell me if I'm right or wrong.
The6568 1 month ago
@The6568 You're very wrong.
fatkinson1954 4 weeks ago
@The6568 Your right it is a reactionary hymn. Basically he's saying, no one should have different opinion then me.
cwcwful 4 weeks ago
@fatkinson2011 No - and the reason I say this is because of the THREAT to my family and myself. 4 muslims gave out my name and address in a chat room ( don't ask me HOW they got that info ) it was not in my profile - they said they are coming to kill me. I am dissabled and had to get to my Dr's by cab. One muslim cab driver tried to kidnapp me, he said I would be a good wife. - NO D E P O R T all of them don't be the way they are..
starfish50 1 month ago
Nothing against Merle, but....He's cooler than August in NZ
astrokat1000 1 month ago
He is a geniune legend, there's no disputing that. But this song is a little bit' "redneck" and hypocritical. But cool non-the-less. PS New Zealand is turning into a Fucked up Hole where political fuck-holes tell you it's OK and everything will be alright
while fucking you quietly over!
astrokat1000 1 month ago
@astrokat1000 There is nothing 'redneck' about this song.
You must be a hardcore liberal.
fatkinson2011 1 month ago
@fatkinson2011 Nah, I'm not of any particular political persuasion. And don't get me wrong, I think Merle Haggard is the man, I just question patriotism when I'm not really sure if our Governments really give a toss about us.
astrokat1000 1 month ago
@astrokat1000 Patriotism isn't being loyal to your President (or your government for that matter). Patriotism is being loyal to your country.
fatkinson1954 1 month ago
@fatkinson1954 Governments in a sense are the country. They shape our daily lives, allow us or disallow us to have freedom of speech, dictate our laws, fund our education and health systems, etc. If you don't believe this is true, then all you're being loyal to is the ground you stand on and a name.
astrokat1000 1 month ago
@astrokat1000 If you believe that then you don't think very much of your fellow countrymen.
fatkinson1954 1 month ago
@fatkinson1954 You nailed it a PATRIOT protect The Country (it people), from it's GOV'T........ People make the USA not it's GOV'T......
aaaaa0000000000 4 weeks ago
@aaaaa0000000000 I'll second that!
fatkinson1954 4 weeks ago
@metamorphosis67 - what I don't understand are the people who VOTED for Nobama. Power corupts, and total power corupts totaly. Nobama said ("the constatution is out of date, and should be eliminated -- and he was going to fullfill the dreams of his father ") his father dreamed of becoming adictator --- Some Americans fell asleep and voted for him. PLEASE watch my video USA Love It Or Leave It..- it expresses my feelings about the condition of the US now.
starfish50 1 month ago
i like this song
papa1945den 1 month ago in playlist More videos from ALLEN0955
"They love our milk and honey but preach about some other way of living." This song hits home in 2012. If you dont love it, leave it!
GuitarsandGuns100 1 month ago
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
oRedRaider 1 month ago
@oRedRaider a warnin' to who? Thomas Jefferson?
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson
or the 30 million illegal immigrants let in through deliberate open borders policy? They don't love it & they're never leavin' it & you have ZERO control over it.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
metamorphosis67 1 month ago
If you don't love it, leave it !!!
Perfect words for the libs to listen to !!!!
oRedRaider 1 month ago
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@oRedRaider the libs?
Don't you know that both those sorry-ass sides are on the same team by now? They all serve the private owners of the Federal Reserve. Read "Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustace Mullins & "Creature from Jekyll Island" by Edward Grffin, both available free online.
Did any republicans tell the 30 million illegal immigrants let in through deliberate open borders policy to leave? They don't love it & they're never leavin' it & you have ZERO control over it.
metamorphosis67 1 month ago
@AbsoluteMonarchist You are an idiot.No need wasting my time, answering all of your ate up with ignorance coments.America LOVE it or GET the heck OUT.Go back and join your terrorist group hammas. No one wants you here.
starfish50 1 month ago
@starfish50 Don't confuse your extended family or tribe or 'country' with your occupied government & its military force deliberately comprised of members of your tribe.
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." Thomas Jefferson
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, & by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
metamorphosis67 1 month ago
I have ALWAYS been proud to say I am an American. Who was it that said " for the first time in my life, I'm proud to be an American"? Yet she wanted to live in the white house. Are you ashamed to say your an American, I sure AM NOT ASHAMED
starfish50 1 month ago
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TheAndbitz 1 month ago
A person has to fight for what they believe in. Other people from other countries will and do fight for their land, so why can't we fight for ours. If ya don't protect what's yours, someone will take it from you. Pure and simple so stop being spineless fools.
cleanboostjunkie 1 month ago 2
@cleanboostjunkie Don't confuse your extended tribe or 'country' with an obviously tyrannical government & its military force deliberately comprised of members of your tribe.
America was set up as an anti-collective, a country founded on individualism & resistance to government, not going along with it.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, & by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
metamorphosis67 1 month ago
@cleanboostjunkie what I am most upset about is this..The islamic terrorist group who were responsable for 9/11/2001 - have NOT been deported. They are ALL STILL HERE.While constatutional law abiding citizans are being molested by TSA.Homeland Insecurity. is nothing less than Fashisim.Yet the real terrorist followers of the Quran ( the real guidebook of terrorism ) are not even profioled.it is I N S A I N E USA Love It Or Leave It.
starfish50 1 month ago
@starfish50 Deported? Don't you think they should be executed?
fatkinson2011 1 month ago
@MrRazorblade999. That's Roy Nichols on the telecaster. Roy never got the recognition he deserved for being a kick ass guitarist. Ranks up there with Don Rich. These boys are still being copied today. RIP Roy.
cleanboostjunkie 1 month ago
Is that James Burton on electric guitar?
MrRazorblade999 2 months ago
I love Cash, i love Waylon, i love Hank Williams Jr ,i love David Allan Coe, I love Dwight Yoakam. But i will tell you there ain't no one, and i mean no one like Merle Haggard. This is the real Outlaw of country.
cavdragoon 2 months ago 3
I think this song should the National Anthem...
unrulytongue 2 months ago 19
@unrulytongue i concur with you....every person in every country should be proud of the country that is theirs and merle haggard just rocks it !!
countrygirlprinceton 2 weeks ago
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BrianW1lls 2 months ago
Death to Ron Paul the Benedict Arnold piece of batshit@!
TheUkuleleMurders 2 months ago
@TheUkuleleMurders your alone on that one . the way its looking ron paul will be president of the usa
Havoc88x 2 months ago
@Havoc88x Anyone who supports Ron Paul is walkin' on the fightin' side of Merle. So if you don't love it leave it!
AbsoluteMonarchist 1 month ago
@AbsoluteMonarchist You have that ass backwards... He is the only candidate that can be trusted to follow the Constitution, restore, and preserve our liberties. The rest are all big government globalists...
TheAspietunes 1 month ago
@AbsoluteMonarchist your an idiot. Ron Paul is the ONLY candate who wants to get our freedoms back. dummy go google NDAA - indefinate detention - who decides this Obama. He also now has the authority to have the military come haul you in. Ron Paul has a bill H.R.3758 that would get our freedoms back. YOU ARE STUPID
starfish50 1 month ago
@starfish50 But you're only semi-literate my friend and I don't need to 'google' that because I read about it every day. Off you go now traitor scum. Go 'make friends with Iran' and killing bin Laden was 'wrong' because he was unarmed and killing Awlaki was 'against international law' - to which Ron Paul thinks US should be subject on this occassion only. Gaza is a 'concentration camp' and HAMAS a 'legitimate government' - all right scum, fuck off now.
AbsoluteMonarchist 1 month ago
and yes this is on my first set list when i play out and you wouldn't believe how many people agree and like it, some think its almost scary for me to sing this song but I stand proud and do it anyway listen to the words and think what the hell is going on today and ask yourself does history repeat itself or did Merl see this coming a long time ago? I started singing this song again at the start of this 2011 and will not stop cause this my country God Bless us ALL
guitarpicker401heh 2 months ago
How is it possible for this song to have 33 dislikes? Does it not tell it JUST LIKE IT IS? Does it not convey patriotism to the fullest? Does it not express what millions of American's feel when faggot bitches protest at a soldier's funeral? I'm very fucking confused here
jscarter0110 2 months ago 3
@jscarter0110 Aside from the cussing I appreciate this comment. It really saddens me that people are allowed to disgrace a funeral. Whether it be a military funeral or any other's it's just something you don't do. You don't disgrace the dead that way, period! Love this song, Love Merle!
smilingnsingin 2 months ago
real country is still alive....listen to hank willams the 3rd!!!!!
420mrman 2 months ago
Merle is correct-That sounds OBAMA!!!!
MrFisherman02 2 months ago
To all the little Taylor swift wanna bees and the zac brown freaks and the people who sing to their red solo cups THIS is country music not your hip hop pop Yankee friendly bullshit GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD BLESS COUNTRY MUSIC!!!
bevisbeck2 3 months ago 10
@bevisbeck2 ever listen to hank willams the 3rd?? give him a try, start with "low down" I think youll like it, also listen to not every body likes us. oh and any thing from lovesick broke and driften
420mrman 2 months ago
This should be our new national anthem. Those idiots in washington are running this country into the ground. republican and democrats both. Goodbye capitalism and freedom, hello socialism then communism
anne5280 3 months ago 2
unfortunately the song does not ring true to this generation.Merle sang when people were proud to be americans,patriotic flag flying citizens not like today where they burn the flag,disrepect the military and do not want to learn the language but will take all the freebies going.America was a great country and can still be great if we all vote for the right people
scotty2121able 3 months ago
dammit Merle, love ya, but sheesh
dreamtransmissions 3 months ago
sing it Merle...
Maybe Obama and his cronies should listen to this song DAILY !!!!
oRedRaider 3 months ago
I agree I to love my country but the people running it have lost thier minds.. What is really sad is that we as a country have only ourselfs to blame. When you take the number of people in this country who our elagible to vote and devide it by the number that really do it is 1 % of the population that deside who runs this country. We who vote must encourage the rest to vote and we must raise our children teaching that voting is not just a privlage but a duty!!
ednewto 3 months ago
I love my country but hate the people running it (into the ground)
pele6922 3 months ago
god bless merle and all canadian troups in afgh
anistan!"!
country502 3 months ago
SOOOO true
MegaNASCARfan11 3 months ago
cont...I am sure this goes a long way to prove your point and disprove mine. I would like to see you in a court of law telling the other side in response to his argument. We call that “argumentum ad hominem”. Pretty silly if you ask me. Kpavo and theguythatiam2000 may not agree with me, but they at least bring some valid points and I respect them for that,
HenriDeToi 3 months ago
All I said was that the poor and the visible minorities are well represented in US jails and on death row. I have not yet read anyone contradicting or bringing evidence to the contrary. I was just called a racist, that someone with attitudes like me never accomplish anything in their lifetime and that I should shut my mouth.
HenriDeToi 3 months ago
@HenriDeToi only in white countries will racism be solved by the genocide/ displacement of white people.
The US has the highest percentage of its population in prisons, no other country comes even close and 1 out of 9 non white citizens are incarcerated as of 2006.
Conclusion, people are not responsible with freedom to behave in a civil way towards other people.
imeanlive 3 months ago
Jesus-fucking-Christ, you guys... I didn't even bother reading... You're walking on the fightin' side of me.
Faalgrim 3 months ago
Jesus-fucking-Christ, you guys... I didn't even bother reading...
Faalgrim 3 months ago
Gag my mouth you say? In my country, I have the liberty of expression; don't you have it in your dear ole US of A? On the scale of the planet, being white, I am a "minority"!
In a free country, you should have the right to criticize, don't you think, eh Merle and sm1164?
HenriDeToi 3 months ago
@sm1164, I never said the rest of the world was perfect and neither are the US of A. I was just pointing a couple of flaws for your country to improve given that some of you think that it is SOOO GREAT! I just began by stating a fact in the most polite way; then I get insulted by this fatkinson jerk and you think I'm going to take it laying down? Just watch me!
HenriDeToi 3 months ago
I like the way he looks here before he got grungy looking.
majajh 4 months ago
This is from 1970...not 1968...
caddyjack98 4 months ago
Oh! - About sewing a Canadian flag on your backpack; I am not so sure anymore since we have this idiot Prime Minister Stephen Harper sucking up to the US of A.
HenriDeToi 4 months ago
cont...It is also known that more per capita from visible minorities are imprisoned and executed. We Canadians accept more immigrants from everywhere in the world than most other countries. How dare you call Canadians racists! If you decide to travel the world, I suggest you sew a Canadian flag on your backpack given that a US one would be more like a target.– I am not saying that there are not some Canadian that are racist; but we sure have no lessons to take form the US of A on racism.
HenriDeToi 4 months ago
I fail because I am not from the US of A? On the contrary, I can think and see outside the box. Most people outside of the US know that the common US Joe is ignorant about most of what goes on in other countries including his own. It is a well known fact that the US of A executes and imprisons more of its citizens than anywhere else in the World, glorifies violence and guns and has one of the most violent societies.
HenriDeToi 4 months ago
@HenriDeToi Yes, and the rest of the world is just peachily perfect, isn't it? Violence is strictly an American problem, of course. Naturally, it's America that must catch up with the rest of a very enlightened world. Henri, your prejudice is really a bore. Please gag your idiotic mouth and enjoy some Merle Haggard. Or find something a little less American.... And by the way, you are not a 'minority.' You are, like everyone else, a singular human being.
sm1164 3 months ago
GREAT SONG
oldslim100 4 months ago
A true patriot loves his country always, and its government when it deserves it.
hellbilly520 4 months ago 25
Being proud of your country is one thing, but being ignorant about it is another
MrKungfudaddy 4 months ago
i want to talk to one of the people who disliked this way awesome video
lovefan300 4 months ago
timmytees the word nigger dou you know what it means aw i didnt think so so please dont us it
crystalbabie1 4 months ago
cont...When I want to go South, I go to Cuba, an option that was not available in your so-called FREE country until very recently. I have never smoked tobacco or pot and therefore have no pipe.
HenriDeToi 4 months ago
@fatkinson, I am not from the US and you don't know me from a hole in the ground. I might have accomplished more than you can ever dream of. Even Warren Buffet says that the rich in your screwed up country should pay more taxes. Freedom in your country is just an illusion. Just in the news today, 7% of americans don't not even make 11 thousand dollars a year. Mostly the poor and the minorities get imprisonned or executed.
HenriDeToi 4 months ago
@HenriDeToi I am not from the US" You already failed. How can you source something credible, and explain to me what my own country is? Mostly the poor and the minorities get imprisonned or executed....are you racist? I'm a minority. even i know whites hold the most in terms of population in prison. I knew you canadians were closet racist.
Rao665 4 months ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Merle and this song that I love to sing; but it's much easier to sing when you are rich and famous in the US regardless if you were an ex con in another life. Tell that to the poor and and the imprisonned (and there are a lot in the US) if they are all for the status quo.
HenriDeToi 4 months ago
@HenriDeToi It's people with attitudes like yours that never accomplish anything in their lifetimes. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
fatkinson2011 4 months ago
So these folks put a NIGGER in the White House???
timmytees 4 months ago
Wow. This guy pretty much says fuck democracy.
I can't imagine how people could agree with that.
God forbid people have opinions.
OMG IMA FIGHT DA LIBERALS CUZ THEY DONT LOVE AMURRIKA
Seriously. It's sad that conservatives claim to love democracy, yet spew shit like this. Merle Haggard has a decent voice and music style, but the lyrics are just upsetting.
Guess I better leave Amurrika since I don't love it.
AHHHskina 4 months ago
@AHHHskina Got it all wrong. "An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in." Protest is American. Not loving your country is plain wrong, and when that line is crossed, Merle sings the rest of the song..... America has made some big mistakes, like all countries have. What makes America great is how far we've come, in spite of our past. If you concentrate on the bad, then you will hate whatever you're thinking about, and you should "leave it".
theguythatiam2000 4 months ago in playlist Classic country
@AHHHskina . No i think he is saying dont take with one hand everything that is good and bash the same country with the other. Substitute your wife for country and guess how she would feel if you bad mouthed her all the time, but ran home to eat and live and love ... bet it would be more obvious to you then. What bothers people is individuals like you that complain but willing take everything. Sad ... I am not even from USA and i think it is great country - maybe appreciate what you.
kpavo 4 months ago
The song has that groove to pick you up when your down....It will pull you out of that depression of negativity and bring you back on top....Great song to listen to on Friday at work when your roofing or slingin that hammer....heck even painting!!! My hats off to all hard working painter's out there...Put that music stroke into that brush when you trim out!!!!! Heck yeah!!!
hanklove4ever 4 months ago
Picks me up every time im down
aaronbeltrancabron79 4 months ago
Amen! That's what I'm talkin' about! Heart and Soul baby.
MesonStrata 4 months ago
wow..cool..great harmonies
monmixer 4 months ago
Sounds like Merle didn't like folks objecting to the US military campaign against the people of Vietnam. But I guess he would've thought otherwise it would have been the Vietnamese occupying the USA and killing it's civilians.
imaccuish 4 months ago
Yeah Occupy this Amen!
2Iremember 4 months ago 2
i love country music, and the buetifull USA.
im just 16 now and live in the netherlands (wich is falling apart with economic crisis atm ) but wish to legaly imigrate to the USA ASAP
MrGerardnl 4 months ago
@MrGerardnl Well i wish you all the luck in the world.Because AMERICA SHE is the best COUNTRY in the world.
skyangel1100 4 months ago
The protesters can Occupy this song!
Denvermorgan2000 4 months ago 3
as a legal immigrant from 1968 i soon fell in love with this country and like merle says your walking on the fighting side of me when you run this country down.
God bless America
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scotty2121able 5 months ago 47
@scotty2121able God bless you. And thanks for coming here legally.
fatkinson2011 4 months ago
@scotty2121able Well said! My Daddy felt the same way till the day he died in '98!
tiranchula 3 months ago
@scotty2121able This song says nothing about America.
redfordforpresident 3 months ago
@scotty2121able Glad you are here with us Scotty2121!
Marsx4 2 months ago
YouTube controlling info and comments now, numbers are not correct. Thanks for Info I can not see this from my computers.
galegregory97comcast 5 months ago
Just as great and true of a song as it was in my childhood days!
onemeangreen 5 months ago
Tell them hippie bastards Merle.
MrMrMoto 5 months ago in playlist Merle 3
When your runnin down my country hoss your walkin on the fightin side of me!!
Merle was an ex-con and a REAL American success story.
vintagekory 5 months ago
I'll fix your flat tire, Merle
SuperJack1952 5 months ago
The ghost likes it.
whitemanrunshim 5 months ago
Tell that piece if shit reverend Phillips to listen to this and shut the fuck up!
j58bear 5 months ago
The 31 dislikes can go jump off the Bay Bridge in Maryland right down from Oxon Hill Md
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Michelle Bachmann, Bill O'Reilly, Jane Fonda, Rick Perry, Tim Dimwit Pawlenty, Rick Reacharound Santorum and other chickenshits avoided fighting in Vietnam. This song goes out to all pussies that are afraid of some good old war.
ebonics4everyone 5 months ago
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I feel the same way as Merle. If a gay or a lesbian wants to fight for America and serve as a seaman, airman, soldier or marine, I'd gladly kick the shit out of any unpatriotic son of a bitch who says gays can't enlist.
ebonics4everyone 5 months ago
this song stands the test of time. God bless the USA and screw the haters.
Zappappy 5 months ago 3
@slyhitman214 You know it. There just another hate group
jlking919 5 months ago
This song is dedicated to the 1st Lady Michelle Obama!!! :)
HerbWalker 5 months ago
I would like for the Westboro Baptist Church to hear this song!
jlking919 5 months ago
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slyhitman214 5 months ago
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tobewunaskwunaaron 6 months ago
WE SHOULD CHISEL THIS SONG IN STONE,RIGHT AT GROUND ZERO IN HONOR OF THE VICTIMS OF 911.
skyangel1100 6 months ago 93
@skyangel1100
i agree my friend but some federal judge will say it breeds anger and we all know how that goes!
"some piss ant may be offended!"
MrPeckerwood69 4 months ago
@MrPeckerwood69 You are more then right.There would be some piss ant that would be all butt hurt about it.Yet this same piss ant would be the very one the take the AMERICAIN FLAG and drag HER on the ground and that be all fine and well.Makes you want to throw up.GOD help our COUNTRY.
skyangel1100 4 months ago
@skyangel1100 amen and build it big so all can see it
RenesmeeDawn96 4 months ago
@RenesmeeDawn96 (:
skyangel1100 4 months ago
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Mr7up4you 6 months ago
1:07-1:11 That solo almost melted the guitarist's face.
SuzukiRider420 6 months ago
Merle Haggard is what I like to call "Politically Bi-Polar".... He says's he's a "Democrat" but has strong conservative vales on somethings. This is seen ALOT with my family back in the south.... "Die Hard Democrat" yet, when you're talking to them, they sound like my redneck conservative ass.
EddieErwinEngines48 6 months ago
@EddieErwinEngines48
The democratic party used to be somewhat conservative. It has been hijacked in the last 25 or so years by the liberal party.
mfdubgli 6 months ago 2
@mfdubgli Pretty much, it's just funny how my family back there still thinks their beloved party, is still their daddy and grandpas democratic party LOL.
EddieErwinEngines48 6 months ago
To all the tea partiers and anarcho-libertarians out there...
jaygade 6 months ago
@fishnut89 So being an open minded individual is a mental illness? Being too far on either side is wrong and unnatural. Most people are moderates that realize that some conservative values are better for some things and some liberal values are better for other things.
doughboycod2 6 months ago
@doughboycod2 I totally agree with you......being open-minded,open-hearted, hospitable,non-judgemental, Creating "BALANCE" in our personal lives overflows into our communities and our country. I was raised in a wonderfull,safe homogenous(99.0% same ethnic background,same Christian religion,all white etc. etc. People would give you the shirt off their backs....but often there is a major fear of "strangers",different ways of thinking everything is,good/bad let's encourage freedom of expression!
mwalkingdeer 6 months ago
He winds the rest of us up
brmarkwell 6 months ago
keyboard warriorsssssssss!!!!!
K1ngTr0LL 6 months ago
What people here seem to not know is that Haggard is very much a liberal himself.
MrRazorblade999 6 months ago
@MrRazorblade999 Where do you people make this shit up MrRazorblade999
cooperjacob22 6 months ago
@cooperjacob22 Well, he supports Obama and he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2008.
MrRazorblade999 6 months ago
That's only if you don't get the fact Merle is a bullshit artist, him and his 6 inch high heels.
ammiralowling 6 months ago
@TheCowboymouth That's Bobby Wayne playing rhythm guitar (deceased last year), Dennis Rhomek playing bass (still alive and kicking in CA), Biff Adam on drums (also still with us), and Norman Hamlet back there playing tambourine (also still alive and still playing with Merle. He normally plays steel guitar and is the longest running Stranger).
Songman1964 6 months ago
Sorry about the typo... That is Dennis Hromek.
Songman1964 6 months ago
Seriously, Merle Haggard, what a dork back in the 60's. Is this song support for Vietnam? Is it against Civil Rights Movement? I see nothing wrong with people standing up for their rights...that's part of the American story, and I do see something wrong with going to war, spending billions of dollars, and killing thousands of people for no valid reason. Goodbye Grover's Corners!
watches777 6 months ago
@BolnoyBratchny lets fight!
hellbillydoom 6 months ago
Damn liberals
BolnoyBratchny 6 months ago
lyrics still so pertinent today.......
27wingnut 6 months ago
@luvvjewels No. We are for justified war. War is terrible. Justified war is a necessary evil. I must say that our two wars right now(especially Iraq) is UNjustified.
sarge958 7 months ago 2
Love ya Merle!
paleskee 7 months ago
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pizzatay6378797 7 months ago
Another #1 hit for Merle Haggard on the Country & Western charts. It was the 181st #1 C&W song of the Rock Era. It also hit #1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts. Merle performed in Augusta, GA this past Saturday (August 6).
mkl62 7 months ago
im drunk as pidddddddss but iloved this song@@!!!!!
mmafinatic 7 months ago
If you don't love it, leave it
videogameguy24 7 months ago
@lhekleinad He was just here in Ohio a few months ago. A great show still.
TheJer1963 7 months ago
greatness!
Hellbilly454 7 months ago
Obozo should hear this one.
fatkinson2011 7 months ago 3
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50TNCSA 7 months ago
Merle was always spot on. May he rest
MasterAlchemist1 7 months ago
@MasterAlchemist1 He's still kicking. No need to rest yet
Nightrain60 7 months ago 2
a real living legend
TheSamstergangster 7 months ago 3
@SSRogue88 Is this in direct reference to the video or a loose statement made in conjunction to life in general or a posted comment?
zipsrule 7 months ago
GUNS FTW!!
trisrock226 7 months ago
HOOAH! US ARMY INFANTRY.
29manchu 8 months ago
@29manchu 3ID!
zipsrule 7 months ago