Merle Haggard – Okie From Muskogee

Merle Haggard and his band started writing this song when their tour bus passed through Muskogee, Oklahoma. It started out as a joke making fun of small town rural folks, but took on new meaning when people took it seriously; the song was a #1 Country hit for four weeks, and it quickly became clear that many listeners really did despise the liberal, elite hippies in San Francisco and heard the song not as a commentary on the folly of intolerance, but as a song about southern pride.

Said Haggard: “We wrote it to be satirical originally. But then people latched onto it, and it really turned into this song that looked into the mindset of people so opposite of who and where we were. My dad’s people. He’s from Muskogee.”
The Vietnam protests were an inspiration for this song – Haggard was protesting the protesters. Haggard was imprisoned several times in his younger days for various crimes, and during a 2010 interview with The Boot, he explained: “When I was in prison, I knew what it was like to have freedom taken away. Freedom is everything.
Muskogee is a city in Oklahoma. In 1969, after this song was released and became a hit, Haggard went to Muskogee and recorded a live album called Okie From Muskogee

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Okie From Muskogee, este melodia de protest lui Merle Haggard, împotriva protestelor care aveau loc în aceea perioada împotriva războiului din Vietnam.

Merle, a început să compună melodia în timp ce autobuzul lor trecea prin orașul Muskogee din Oklahoma, mai mult că o glumă la început adresată oamenilor dintr-un mic oraș rural. Dar asculatorii au luat-o în serios, pentru că nu prea îi sufereau pe elitistii din San Francisco, plini de sine și intoleranți.

Piesă a stat 4 săptămâni pe primul loc în topul de country.

Merle Haggard a fost în tinerețe de mai multe ori închis pentru diferite motive, și în anul 2010, într-un interviu cu revista The Boot, el spunea “Când am fost închis, am înțeles ce inseman să-ți pierzi libertate. Libertate este totul.”

Piesa este inclusă pe pe albumul Okie From Muskogee din 1969.

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