Hag: The Studio Recordings 1969-1976

Perhaps the most productive stretch of Hag's ongoing career, these 8 years yielded dozens of hits including 15 straight #1s! A spokesman for the working class, a counter-culture hero, Merle tells it like it is as he tackles work, politics, romance and livin'. This6-disc set boasts 165 songs—including 20previously unreleased cuts. It's the perfect addition to round out or start your Merle Haggard collection.

Track Listing

• Disc 1
• • 1 i'd rather be gone
  • 2 montego bay
  • 3 i die ten thousand times a day
  • 4 california on my mind
  • 5 california cotton fields
  • 6 white line fever
  • 7 i came so close to failure
  • 8 workin' man blues
  • 9 the sea shores of old mexico
  • 10 okie from muskogee
  • 11 if i had left it up to you
  • 12 streets of berlin
  • 13 huntsville
  • 14 train of life
  • 15 they're tearing the labor camp down
  • 16 the fightin' side of me
  • 17 i wonder what she'll think about me leav
  • 18 no reason to quit
  • 19 jesus, take a hold
  • 20 i ain't got nobody
  • 21 new york city blues
  • 22 one row at a time
  • 23 shelly's winter love
  • 24 i'll be a hero when i strike
  • 25 if you've got time (to say goodbye)
  • 26 i'm a good loser
  • 27 i can't be myself
  • 28 i've done it all
  • 29 one sweet hello
• Disc 2
• • 1 worried, unhappy, lonesome and sorry
  • 2 somewhere in between
  • 3 the sidewalks of chicago
  • 4 the farmer's daughter
  • 5 tulare dust
  • 6 when the feelin' goes away
  • 7 soldier's last letter
  • 8 the only trouble with me
  • 9 make believe
  • 10 big time annie's square
  • 11 you're the only girl in the game
  • 12 the conversion of ronnie jones
  • 13 carolyn
  • 14 it's great to be alive
  • 15 someday we'll look back
  • 16 somewhere in between
  • 17 my heart would know
  • 18 daddy frank (the guitar man)
  • 19 goodbye comes hard for me
  • 20 the man who picked the wildwood flower
  • 21 you don't love me (but i'll always care)
  • 22 this cold war with you
  • 23 irma jackson
  • 24 recitation: the proudest fiddle in the w
  • 25 turnin' off a memory
  • 26 grandma harp
• Disc 3
• • 1 they're tearin' the labor camps down
  • 2 bill woods from bakersfield
  • 3 old doc brown
  • 4 a shoulder to cry on
  • 5 the funeral
  • 6 bring it on down to my house, honey
  • 7 combine blues
  • 8 blues stay away from me
  • 9 tired of your understanding ways
  • 10 hag's dixie blues #2
  • 11 i ain't got nobody (and nobody cares for
  • 12 moanin' the blues
  • 13 don't let the deal go down
  • 14 stingeree
  • 15 lovesick blues
  • 16 blues for dixie
  • 17 i forget you every day
  • 18 a shoulder to cry on
  • 19 i know an ending when it comes
  • 20 dad's old fiddle
  • 21 i'm a white boy
  • 22 i wonder where i'll find you at tonight
  • 23 my woman keeps lovin' her man
  • 24 it's not love (but it's not bad)
  • 25 somewhere to come when it rains
  • 26 my woman keeps lovin' her man
• Disc 4
• • 1 i wonder if they ever think of me
  • 2 to each his own
  • 3 i wonder what she'll think about me leav
  • 4 i'm an old, old man (tryin' to live whil
  • 5 i'd never told on you
  • 6 i wonder if they ever think of me
  • 7 i forget you every day
  • 8 big bad bill (is sweet william now)
  • 9 if we make it through december
  • 10 i'll break out tonight
  • 11 love and honor never crossed your mind
  • 12 this is the song we sing
  • 13 there's just one way
  • 14 the emptiest arms in the world
  • 15 come on into my arms
  • 16 radiator man from wasco
  • 17 uncle lem
  • 18 daddy won't be home again for christmas
  • 19 bobby wants a puppy for christmas
  • 20 silent night
  • 21 winter wonderland
  • 22 white christmas
  • 23 silver bells
  • 24 jingle bells
  • 25 grandma's homemade christmas card
  • 26 santa claus and popcorn
• Disc 5
• • 1 white man singin' the blues
  • 2 better off when i was hungry
  • 3 things aren't funny anymore
  • 4 that's the way love goes
  • 5 got a leter from my kid today
  • 6 honky tonk night time man
  • 7 a man's got to give up a lot
  • 8 the girl who made me laugh
  • 9 no more trains to ride
  • 10 holding things together
  • 11 so long train whistle
  • 12 september in miami
  • 13 a king without a queen
  • 14 it don't bother me
  • 15 travelin'
  • 16 don't give up on me
  • 17 here in 'frisco
  • 18 railroad lady
  • 19 old man from the mountain
  • 20 mirrors don't lie
  • 21 movin' on
  • 22 the seeker
  • 23 kentucky gambler
  • 24 you'll always be special to me
  • 25 life's like poetry
  • 26 i've got a darlin' (for a wife)
  • 27 these mem'ries we're making tonight
  • 28 the hobo
  • 29 the coming and the going of the trains
  • 30 my love affair with trains
  • 31 the silver ghost
• Disc 6
• • 1 where have all the hobos gone
  • 2 i won't give up my train
  • 3 union station
  • 4 when my last song is sung
  • 5 i've got a yearning
  • 6 always wanting you
  • 7 nothin's worse than losing
  • 8 colorado
  • 9 the roots of my raising
  • 10 living with the shades pulled down
  • 11 after loving you
  • 12 cotton patch blues
  • 13 runnin' kind
  • 14 walk on the outside
  • 15 let's stop pretending (dirty old hat ban
  • 16 right or wrong
  • 17 it's all in the movies
  • 18 the way it was in '51
  • 19 goodbye lefty
  • 20 i never go around mirrors
  • 21 am i standing in your way?
  • 22 a working man can't get nowhere today
  • 23 the waltz you saved for me
  • 24 cherokee maiden
  • 25 what have you got planned tonight, diana
  • 26 here comes the freedom train
  • 27 campaign of '76