Best Opening Lyrics: No. 18
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--Merle Haggard's 'Okie From Muskokee'
Hippie haters took this line a little too literally. Heck, for all we know, the Hag was stoned when he wrote it.
Listen to the line!
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gitrightat 2-18-2008
For those that don't know, Merle is the best country vocalist that ever lived. Listen to some of his early stuff---workin man blues, mama tried,sing me back home, I started loving you again---merle had the purest,perfect tone voice. If you haven't heard merle, treat yourself to the best ever!
gitrightat 2-18-2008
herschel, maybe YOU need to listen to the song.
THE OPENING LINE IS CORRECT. I am a haggard expert, have everything he ever recorded.
DrawBySundownat 8-04-2008
"You look like you'd fit in the trunk of my car" ... Alice Cooper ['The One That Got Away' on ALONG CAME A SPIDER CD]
chrrobiat 11-02-2008
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee,/Instead we get our thrills by dippin' sheep....
brennanpjbrenat 12-20-2008
Used to get wrecked and listen to this and sing along untill we laughed ourselves crying!! LOL
JennahRoseat 11-15-2009
I'm just flipping glad to see a wider representation of music on this list! Can't not love Old Hag!
latinkeenanat 8-06-2007
Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste
James Michalekat 8-06-2007
Smokin' marijuana is probably the only thing that Hag didn't do, in Muskogee or anywhere else.
Willowat 8-06-2007
#1, great, great song. I wonder why Spinner didn't decide to go with that song. Wasn't it by the Stones???
deserthat 8-06-2007
Haggard has been known to make a comment like: "fortunately we're not in Muskogee very often" when he does this tune in concert.
patrickgawneat 8-07-2007
Find "Asshole from El Paso" by Chuck Wagon and thr Wheels, great parody. The first line is "We all smoke marijuana in El Paso"
Rissat 8-07-2007
AHHH..nothing like "weed!"
Nicolisat 8-18-2007
Same with this song, wouldn't put it on the best opening lyrics
melomoeat 9-12-2007
I've not only smoked marijuana in Muskogee, but I scored a pound from a guy with really long hair.
Lyric- "You left me here on your way to paradise; you pulled the rug right out from under my life. I know where you go to, I knew when you came home last night, with a mist in your eyes from the smoke of a distant fire." Love that!
Acemanat 9-20-2007
Once upon a time you dressed so fine....there's Dylan...then everyone else..
dAnnyat 9-24-2007
damn den u missin out playa
Marciaat 9-30-2007
Sure, no one smokes marijuana in Muskogee. And there are no gays in Iran.
Peteat 9-30-2007
Another bad choice, there are so many songs to chose from this should have never made the cut!
tygrusfurbellyat 9-30-2007
I swear that pic of merle haggard looks like he could be the actor billy ray thornton with a wig on .
hockeyfan39at 6-09-2009
Bob, Billy Bob, not Billy Ray. Thornton would need a mullet to be Billy Ray.