Today I started loving you again — Merle Haggard

"Im proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, And white lightnins still the biggest thrill of all."

"Ive lived through 17 stays in penal institutions. Incarceration in a penitentiary. Five marriages, a bankruptcy, a broken back, brawls, shooting incidents, swindlings, sickness, the death of loved ones and more. Ive heard tens of thousands chant my name when I couldnt hear the voice of my own soul. I wondered if God was listening and I was sure no one else was."

"When the world wide war is over and done And the dream of peace comes through Well all be drinking some free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew."

"One of these days when the air clears up And the sun come shining through Well all be drinking free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew."

"I had different views in the 70s. As a human being, Ive learned… I have more culture now. I was dumb as a rock when I wrote Okie from Muskogee. Thats being honest with you at the moment, and a lot of things that I said … I sing with a different intention now. My views on marijuana have totally changed. I think we were brainwashed and I think anybody that doesnt know that needs to get up and read and look around, get their own information. Its a cooperative government project to make us think marijuana should be outlawed."

"We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don’t take our trips on LSD We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street We like living right and being free."