"Walkin on the Fightin Side of Me" is pro-Vietnam war imperialist schlock, I regret to inform you from my lofty tower on the Big Rock Candy Mountain. :deng-cowboy:
I agree, but Merle later said that he regrets writing it and Okie from Muskogee and that the government was brainwashing everyone to hate the hippies and marijuana. He actually wanted to follow up with a song in support of interracial marriage but his producers wouldn't let him. Also I mostly like him for songs about being a ne'erdowell drifter.
Yeah, he did write some real right wing schlock though.
If I hear watermelon crawl again I will declare jihad on the suburbs of the American South
Go for it, that Nashville sound isn't what country's about. Gimme ole Merle Haggard and that Bakersfield sound any day.
"Walkin on the Fightin Side of Me" is pro-Vietnam war imperialist schlock, I regret to inform you from my lofty tower on the Big Rock Candy Mountain. :deng-cowboy:
I agree, but Merle later said that he regrets writing it and Okie from Muskogee and that the government was brainwashing everyone to hate the hippies and marijuana. He actually wanted to follow up with a song in support of interracial marriage but his producers wouldn't let him. Also I mostly like him for songs about being a ne'erdowell drifter.
Yeah, he did write some real right wing schlock though.
I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing