Merle Haggard-If We Make It Through December

1974

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[simwrangler]

Today's so call "country" singers need to listen to Merle Haggard, Don Williams, & Waylon Jennings and a lot of these older singers to know what REAL country music is. This crap they play on "country" radio is NOT country music.

[Cotez74]

Yes I think of my dad too. I remember when really young and times were tight, he always made Christmas special. He worked his ass off to retire at 50 (which he did) but died two years later form cancer...anyway life is too short live love and be happy. Christmas is just the time for that. I plan on making Christmas for my daughter like he made it for me.

[doubtful777]

Wish country music would go back to thinking this kind of music is what needs playing, not the stuff that is on the radio now. He will always be up there in my book.

[simwrangler]

@kba95630 I never said Dwight Yoakam is crap. But Taylor Swift is crap. When she sings live she is flat and off key big time. Rascal Flats is crap. The lead singer sounds like a cat in a blender.

[kba95630]

@simwrangler I love the old stuff best too. But music changes and tastes differ. No need to call anyone's music crap. Brad Paisley isn't Merle Haggard, but "crap"? I don't think so. Dwight Yoakam crap? Merle, Don, Waylon, and Buck and George blazed a trail by doing something different from the Nashvilled sound. God bless those who continue to create and innovate, even if it's not your favorite sound.

[BebeZed]

Even though Merle was kind of an arse he was an undeniable talent and I respect him for that... and this is perhaps my fave song by the Hag... it's poignant and just right...

[drrex41591]

Me and my daddy were goon to bama a few years back and he said what do you want to listen to I said lets here some hag everytime I hear Merle I think of my dad he raised me listing to good country and its made me the man I am today that's why I love my dad so much he raised me to be a good hard working man and one day ill do the same for my son

[gaffneymusic]

Reminds me of a special girl. Memories of snow falling in a deep blanket of white in Reidsville, NC a few streets back and around a lot of corners. Thanks Merle

[hermangre]

Not to mention Rosalie Allen and the program "Prairie Stars". It must have been about 1948 when i heard her program. She is gone now, and where is the real stuff?

[barristerwolf]

One year I couldn't buy christmas for my family, and people who worked with my wife bought a single gift a piece and the boys got ten gifts each and they asked, "We thought you couldn't afford Christmas this year?" We told we couldn't. They asked where the gifts came from, we told them, "You see, there really is a Santa Clause" He's in each and every one of us. Merry Christmas to all!

[RDarth]

@theguyforthat

Sorry to hear. Hang in there.

[Clonetrooper1139]

I think this song exemplifies the American spirit to a point. We hare having tough times, but we have been through worse and came through it.