Interesting: Merle Haggard sings "Lets get out of Iraq and get back on

[AlinPA]

the track".
I heard someone say "Red state singer with a blue state message"

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So Haggard is not afraid to speak his mind. And he does so again, very frankly, in the song, "Rebuild America First."
"That's the News," his 2003 song commenting on Iraq, pretty much chastised the government and the media for swallowing the administration's spin that the war was over and won. Now he moves on to the matter of the U.S. being in Iraq, period. "Rebuild America First" is pretty honest and blunt. In part, he sings:
"Yea, men in position but backing away
Freedom is stuck in reverse
Let's get out of Iraq and get back on the track
And let's rebuild America first."
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http://www.counterpunch.org/flippo10182005.html

[sui generis]

1. He opened for the Stones here in Dallas

must have more than just music in common!

[regnaD kciN]

7. ...and for Dylan here in Seattle...

He's been more libertarian than jingoistic for years now.

[NMDemDist2]

2. that's getting a kick and a nomination, if the WH has lost Merle Haggard

it's lost their base

:woohoo:

this is so good on so many levels..........

[CottonBear]

3. Merle is more of a Willie Nelson style outlaw country musician

rather than the awful, jingoistic "I'm proud to be an American 'cause at leat I know I'm free" Lee Greenwood type.

[wicket]

6. Johnny Cash too

And the Dixie Chicks! :D

[tinfoilinfor2005]

4. I love that song, and thanks for the reminder.

I heard it weeks ago and meant to buy the CD, but then the holidays came along and yada yada yada...

[cornermouse]

10. If you want to hear more like it, you'll get out and buy it.

[wicket]

5. I love Merle

Always have, now I love him even more! :D

[cornermouse]

8. I agree with him.

He's right.

[IndyOp]

9. David A. Kent - Takin' My Country Back

Takin' My Country Back

Author: David A. Kent

Country music's got mamas and daddys
We got bar rooms and old heartbreak songs
But I'm here today to stand up and say
How I feel about my home sweet home
What's left, what's right and what's wrong...and

I'm taking my country back
Son, you ain't been doin' her right
Oh, I been watchin' you and I don't like
How you've been treatin' my stars and stripes
You took our jobs and sent 'em overseas
Now we owe billions to the red Chinese
You blew the budget and you botched Iraq
So I'm taking my country back.

We had a bundle in the treasury drawer
More than there had ever been there before
But every day we're drownin' deeper in dept
Maybe four years should be all you get
Then you gave tax breaks to the millionaires
And tried to make the workin' man pay
But you can't tax a man when his jobs not there
Now look at where we are today...hey

I'm taking my country back
Son, you ain't been doin' her right
Oh I been watchin' you and I don't like
How you been treatin' my stars and stripes
You've got too many fancy friends for me
The Saudis treat you like you're royalty
You blew the budget and you botched Iraq
Now I'm takin' my country back

Now I can understand why you were hot
'Cause Bin Laden never did get caught
So you said we had Saddam to blame
Tried to tell us it was all the same
But now the years roll by and our kids keep dyin'
You don't even have a plan to bring 'em home
And those W.M.D. you promised on T.V.
Hey admit it, you figured it wrong...so I'm takin' my country back

Now you don't know my name, but you know who I am
I'm your everyday work hard, play hard
Raise kids and pray hard common man
And lord knows I love this land...that's why

I'm taking my country back
Son, you ain't been doin' her right
Oh I been watchin' you and I don't like
How you been treatin' my stars and stripes
You say "unite" but you divide us more
Cussin' each other on the Senate floor
Ain't we supposed to be above all that?
Hey I'm taking my country back
I got my family and my church and flag...
Now I'm takin' my country back

Copyright 2004 David A. Kent

[jazzjunkysue]

11. I never liked country before.

Honey, get me a beer, will ya?

[Straight Shooter]

12. Well, I'll get you a beer ...

... but don't you dare ask me to put another log on the fire. :P




(Old country song with a satirical twist.)

[BrotherBuzz]

14. Get me a beer before it starts!

A man comes home from an exhausting day at work, plops down on the couch in front of the television, and tells his wife, "Get me a beer before it starts!"

The wife sighs and gets him a beer.

Ten minutes later, he says, "Get me another beer before it starts!"

She looks cross, but fetches another beer and slams it down next to him. He finishes that beer and a few minutes later says, "Quick, get me another beer, it's going to start any minute!"

The wife is furious. She yells at him "Is that all you're going to do tonight! Drink beer and sit in front of that TV! You're nothing but a lazy, drunken, fat slob, and furthermore..."

The man sighs and says, "It's started..."

[greiner3]

13. Damn;

I just might go see him and Dylan if they come to Columbus after all!

[spanone]

15. Merle is an American Icon. imho

One of the greatest country singers.

[William Bloode]

16. Wanna know whats funny?

Merle was the Toby Keith of his day in the 60's. Mr. right wing go to guy. Now libs embrace him. Similar with Charlie Daniels. He was at onetime more or less liberal, now.......not so much. :shrug: