The recording by Merle Haggard was released in 1968 and became of his career cornerstone songs. It focuses on the pain and suffering he caused to his own mother by being incarcerated in San Quentin, one of America’s infamous maximum security prisons, in 1957.
This version is by Rhonda Vincent one of country music’s most famous bluegrass singer and Emmy award winner who has sung with Nashville’s best. https://youtu.be/gkfN0iBusFQ Roland. Toronto.
