Merle Haggard - Intro to Olie From Muskogee lyrics

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Intro to Olie From Muskogee

They's some of you in the audience that may or may not know I wasn't

actually born here in Muskogee but my family on my mother's side lived

here for many years

And I think most all of my dad's folks were born in between here and

Checotah somewhere and around Brush Hill you know where Brush Hill or

Kneebow Mountain or somewhere over

And I've heard 'em talk so many times about it that when I finally began to

tour on the road. We made a special plan to come through here and kinda

look around and see where they used to live and Muskogee was a word

and town that I've heard about ever since I was knee high

And the fact that Oklahoma for some reason or another has been able to

keep out of the conflict and the college campuses haven't had any trouble

that I know of they haven't been in news anyway and as far as I know just

about hippy free I haven't seen any hippies around here either

Except of course except for Carlton I mean he

Course Carlton's a country hippy now we can allow that see

Carlton's just short of money that's the only thing wrong with him

He's broke see he had too many Merle Haggard shows

No seriously these things and the fact that like I say I was very familar

with Muskogee

The ideas came together and we wrote a song called Okie From Muskogee

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