This song was a sad and personal story about Merle Haggard's loss of his girlfriend..
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This should be my last Haggard tune. I was going to post Okie from Muskogee tomorrow but to post any song that mentions football would be highly hypocritical of me since it is well known how I simply despise the sport. Beside the song is a lie.I have been to Muskogee and they do smoke marijuana there.If I could find a town where they didn't I would move there. So tired of every breath I take smelling like a skunks arse.
I drifted away from football maybe 10-15 years ago. I could no longer stand the 'show'...spiking the ball, dancing, goading each other, self-celebrating when you score, and unecessarily roughing each other up like it's a hockey game.
Shhhh....please Bob, don't encourage him!
While football is an inherently violent sport, over the decades the worst of the carnage has been removed from the game. The threshold for incurring a penalty for unnecessary roughness today is far lower than what it was when I was a young man. This year, the NFL is also cracking down on taunting. As for the showtime elements of the game, well, that is not going away any time soon. I can tolerate your average touchdown celebration. What's more annoying is, for instance, someone celebrating a third-down stop when their team is trailing 31-7 late in the fourth quarter.
You mean when the player who catches the touchdown pass and his teamate run towards each other, then jump up and bump their chests together? That is so primitive.
The Grateful Dead song "Black Peter" is a somber dirge sung from the perspective of a dying man who is reflecting on his mortality. The lyrics, written by Robert Hunter, focus on themes of death, poverty, sorrow, and the indifference of the outside world. (AI)
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
Annie Bonneau from St. Angel
Say the weather down here so fine
Just then the wind came squalling through the dark
But who can the weather command?
Just wanna have a little peace to die
And a friend or two I love at hand
Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up, gonna roll back down
One more day I find myself alive
Tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground
See here how everything lead up to this day
And it's just like any other day that's ever been
Sun going up and then the sun going down
Shine through my window and my friends they come around
Come around, come around
The people might know but the people don't care
That a man could be as poor as me
Take a look at poor Peter, he's lying in pain
Now let's go run and see, run and see
Run and see, run, run and see and see
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
Annie Bonneau from St. Angel
Say the weather down here so fine
Just then the wind came squalling through the dark
But who can the weather command?
Just wanna have a little peace to die
And a friend or two I love at hand
Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up, gonna roll back down
One more day I find myself alive
Tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground
See here how everything lead up to this day
And it's just like any other day that's ever been
Sun going up and then the sun going down
Shine through my window and my friends they come around
Come around, come around
The people might know but the people don't care
That a man could be as poor as me
Take a look at poor Peter, he's lying in pain
Now let's go run and see, run and see
Run and see, run, run and see and see
I got that album right after it was released and it's still one of my favorites. Gave the original vinyl (along with a bunch of others) to my son in law a number of years ago and he was over the moon.
But I get my my music, lyrics and insights here, instead of from Google's servers.
But I get my my music, lyrics and insights here, instead of from Google's servers.
I still have the same album I bought back then. This song now has a lot more meaning to me now, considering my age, and especially since I lost many good friends in the past 10 years. Back in the mid-70's, injecting methedrine and other bad stuff was prevalent, and some also smoked 2 packs a day, even into their 40's and beyond, leading to COPD.
For me, this kind of sums it up: "The people might know but the people don't care". So, make the best of things while you're still alive because when you're gone, nobody will really care. Yeah, there will be a few close friends and loved ones, but not "the people". I have seen too many examples of this with friends who are no longer here. But, in a way, that's just life - it's for the living.
And how about poor Jerry? He looked at least 10 years older than he really was towards the end. Maybe this can be explained with the old saying, "the light that burns twice as bright only lasts half as long"?
And how about poor Jerry? He looked at least 10 years older than he really was towards the end. Maybe this can be explained with the old saying, "the light that burns twice as bright only lasts half as long"?
Hilarious! I could not understand the second story until the third time I listened to it.
Fifty years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. All twenty-nine of her officers and crew were lost. Gordon Lightfoot's classic about the disaster has been posted before on this thread, but on this anniversary, it seems appropriate to offer it again.
North Shore of Lake Superior
I was there back in 2013.
"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead.
When the gales of November came early"
One extra photo. The ore docks at Two Harbor, MN