Okie From Muskogee -- Merle Haggard

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 livin' right,
and bein' free.  We don't make a party out of lovin' We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo  We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.

(*)  And I'm 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 lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.

Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear  Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen.  Football's still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids here still respect the college dean.

(**)

Haggard was imprisoned several times in his younger days for various crimes, and he explained: " When I was in prison, I knew what it was like to have freedom taken away. Freedom is everything.                         (songfacts)

 

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