That's the News by Merle Haggard (selections)
Suddenly it's over
The war is finally done
Soldiers in the desert sand
Still clinging to a gun.
No one is the winner
And everyone must lose
Suddenly the war is over
That's the news.
...
Politicians do all the talking
Soldiers pay the dues
Suddenly
A long way from Okie from Muskogee, no? jks
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's the News by Merle Haggard (selections)
Suddenly it's over
The war is finally done
Soldiers in the desert sand
Still clinging to a gun.
No one is the winner
And everyone must lose
Suddenly
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
A long way from Okie from Muskogee, no?
Yup. Speaking of which, I heard an Australian aborigine singing that
song at an opening at the aboriginal arts center in Adelaide a couple
of years ago. A truly strange experience.
Doug
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
A long way from Okie from Muskogee, no? jks
origianlly written as a joke while high smoking weed
A long way from Okie from Muskogee, no? jks
I heard a report on the writing of that song on US National Public Radio awhile back.
Haggard and the rest of the band were stoned out of their gourds on pot when driving
through Muskogee -- and the song was a satire. It's the audience that
Devine, James wrote:
A long way from Okie from Muskogee, no? jks
I heard a report on the writing of that song on US National Public Radio awhile
back. Haggard and the rest of the band were stoned out of their gourds on pot when
driving through Muskogee -- and the song was a satire. It's
Haggard lives in Reading, near Chico. He had served time in San Quentin,
I believe. He was also one of the patients of Tenet Health care who seem
to be given unnecessary heart surgery to make more .
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:33:11AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
That's the News by Merle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/03 11:53 AM
I heard a report on the writing of that song on US National Public Radio
awhile back. Haggard and the rest of the band were stoned out of their
gourds on pot when driving through Muskogee -- and the song was a
satire. It's the audience that interpreted it as a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/03 3:13 PM
...ray wylie hubbard wrote 'up
against the wall redneck mother' recored by he and his band the cowboy
twinkies and by
jerry jeff walker... michael hoover
new riders of the purple sage also recorded above song... michael
hoover
MH saidmh [Merle Haggard] was at smithsonian recently and when asked about politics,
he
declined comment saying something to effect that he has a lot of
opinions that wouldn't be too popular down the street at the white house
In the NPR interview (June 9, 2001), he revealed belief in several
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