Grateful Dead & The Beach Boys "Okie From Muskogee" 4-27-71

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Rare Live Grateful Dead & The Beach Boys "Okie From Muskogee" 4-27-71

On April 27, 1971, The Grateful Dead played the Fillmore East in New York, and put on what I consider to be one of the greatest shows they did that entire year. In fact, the First Set recording of Bertha was the one used on their Skullfuck live album. (Overall, Im generally a 77 man, myself, although 1974 was also a good year.)

But the real keen thing that happened on April 27 was the encore set, where the kings of the three-minute surfpop tune, The Beach Boys, came out and joined with the stoner jamband heroes. The encore set began with the classics Searchin and Riot in Cell Block #9, with the two bands playing together. Then the Dead stepped away and allowed the Beach Boys to play solo, which they did, on their two hits, Good Vibrations and I Get Around. Six minutes must have been just enough time to beam up, because the Dead came back, ready to jam on the Merle Haggard classic, Okie From Muskogee, and finally on the Chuck Berry classic, Johnny B. Goode.

Okie From Muskogee
Lyrics: Merle Haggard
Music: Merle Haggard

Only played once by the Grateful Dead, in a set jointly with the Beach Boys on 27 April 1971 at the Fillmore East.

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't our burn draft cards down on Main Street
'Cause we like living right and being free

We don't make a party out of loving
But we like holding hands and pitching wood
We don't wear our hair all long and shaggy
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do

Chorus
I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Old Glory down by the court house
And white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all

Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear
Beads and roman sandals wont be seen
And football's still the roughest thing on campus
And the kids there still respect the college dean

[chorus]
[chorus]

White lightning's still the biggest thrill of all
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA

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[Hashjihadful]

Check out the Bill Maher interviewwith merle haggard, shit I love hicks and hippies this is fucking america and were all americans and everyone needs to chill out and have respect everyone else. In my homestate vermont everone smokes weed, liberals, conservatives were all the same

[itsareligionofpeace]

I love this song.

And think it is OK if some regular folks in Muskogee OK smote a little MJ. Not too much, or too strong.

Let's work with some of these long hair folks that can't go along with corporate world, no reason to embrace Mao, Trotsky or Osama Bin Ladin - we have folk populists like Mearle Haggard and Mike Love of the Beach Boys - Grateful Dead are mostly OK -

God bless America and Muskogee OK

[MrLedStoner]

lol they were so high when they sung this song

[ArtemisFlyingV]

@alexandertarangerkin Okay, I disagree. Am I not allowed to have my opinion? I mean it's just about as meaningful as yours.

[alexandertarangerkin]

@ArtemisFlyingV

one likes to remember songs like LITSWD and day in the life, the reality is fixing a hole and lovely rita(what is this song about?), when im 64(does anyone else feel embarrassed listening to this or do they just skip it?) and i seriously cant handle good morning, good morning, just terrible... however Lucy, little help from my friends, leaving home, within you, sgt pepper and reprise and a day in the life are very very epic songs, but they dont make up for paul's filler...

[ArtemisFlyingV]

@alexandertarangerkin While I love Pet Sounds and SMiLE (The Smile Sessions), I can honestly say neither of them is better than Pepper.

[ArtemisFlyingV]

I'm guessing Brian wasn't there.

[MongoTheLloyd]

@itsareligionofpeace No. Why bastardize ideals by smoking peace pipes with rednecked fascists? Especially those who think "left" equals Osama bin Laden. Clearly, the religious fundamentalist that OBL was, he more closely resembled America's righjtwing fascists than he resembled our Democrats.

[nyrichiek]

@lastpaganemperor very racist remarks.

[hellomcflyy]

@MrSk1111 heh ok

[lastpaganemperor]

@itsareligionofpeace yes, I agree a little MJ is like some moderate beer drinking or a glass of wine with a nice meal.

But hard drugs, meth, crack cocaine, Mexican Black heroin, this must not be tolerated, the same with all the violent corruptions of the 60s that Merle is lamenting here.

[lastpaganemperor]

@Hashjihadful I understand your feelings - and in Vermont it is possible for Liberals, Conservatives and most everyone to smoke a little weed and get along.

But that's because Vermont is ~ 95% White.

When you live in cities, states with huge a Black underclass, Latino Gang bangers, Muslim extremist immigrants and extremely intolerant PC DIVERSITY elites who will persecute you for thought crime, it just doesn't work.

This song is for common American White folks.