Merle

[Kramer]

I hear people talkin' bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin' on the wars we fight,
An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in.
When they're runnin' down my country, man,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

I read about some squirrely guy,
Who claims, he just don't believe in fightin'.
An' I wonder just how long,
The rest of us can count on bein' free.
They love our milk an' honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin'.
When they're runnin' down my country, hoss,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

[Michael Tee]

Typical fascist crap.  "Believe what I believe and think what I think or I'll beat the living shit out of you."

Hitler and Mussolini woulda loved it.

[Amianthus]

Typical fascist crap.  "Believe what I believe and think what I think or I'll beat the living shit out of you."

Similar to "Believe what we believe and think what we think or we'll line you up against the wall."

[Michael Tee]

<<Similar to "Believe what we believe and think what we think or we'll line you up against the wall.">>

Yeah, exactly; the difference is in the hypocrisy.  The U.S.S.R. did not claim to be a land of free speech.

[BT]

Isn't Merle exercising his right to free speech?

And i doubt he is the government which is who the free speech clause applies to.

[Michael Tee]

<<Isn't Merle exercising his right to free speech?>>

Most people would deduce that he is issuing threats of violent assault and battery against anyone who expresses opinions he disagrees with.  Basically intimidating others in their right to free speech.

<<And i doubt he is the government which is who the free speech clause applies to.>>

Whatever he is or isn't, he sure as bitchin hell does NOT have the right to intimidate others into silence by the threat of violence.  Someone needs to tell that pussy to his face what a shit country the U.S.A. is, and exercise a punishing right of self-defence if the singing Nazi ever tries to do what he's been threatening to do.

[BT]

Does his song intimidate you?

Are ya scared for your safety?

[Kramer]

Typical fascist crap.  "Believe what I believe and think what I think or I'll beat the living shit out of you."

Hitler and Mussolini woulda loved it.

don't you like art?

I bet there are some rap lyrics that sound a bit more offensive than that, especially to women. Oh but wait, your comments about Hillary and Sarah are at the very least on par with some of the rap crap that I've heard.

[Michael Tee]

I have no objection at all to Haggard or his song.  He's got every right to compose it and sing it - - the proper answer would be in another song, addressed to the loud-mouth bully and telling him, "Ain't mah fault yer country sucks, man, an ef yew er yer fightin side wanna do ennathang abaowdit, come an geddit mah fren."  (I know, I won't quit my day job.)

So I admit, my earlier post in this thread was wrong, and you guys, for maybe once in your lives, were right.

Wonder which one would get more airplay, assuming the songwriter would be up to Merle's level of talent and not mine?  Even if my song ultimately got better musical and production values than Merle's, the MSM would either block it off completely, or to avoid charges of censorship, play it once for every 300,000 times they played Merle's Nazi-Redneck song.

It's also noteworthy that whereas there are plenty of talented left-wing song-writers, none of them stoop to the kind of thuggery and speech-intimidating violence that the right-wing songwriters like Haggard do.  Dylan in The Times They Are a-Changin' referred to the right being swept aside by the tide of history, warned of violence that would flow from right-wing war-mongering in A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, and also in  With God on Our Side, and seemed to glorify the Weather Underground in Subterranean Homesick Blues, but there were never any direct threats to punch out anyone's lights for voicing criticism of the country, as Haggard does.

But, yeah, the way to counter fascist or Nazi influence in music is with better music.  Too bad America's leftist songwriters are cowed into silence by these ass-holes. 

[Xavier_Onassis]

Merle Haggard has a right to sing his silly song.

But that does not make it less silly.

[Kramer]

Merle Haggard has a right to sing his silly song.

But that does not make it less silly.

I guess you got your feelings hurt because in his lyrics he's referring to losers like you. So of course you lash out at him and call his music silly. Poor XO got his feelings hurt.

[Michael Tee]

Well Kramer I wonder how YOU'D react to a song threatening to punch your lights out it you choose to express your views on a particular subject?

Inquiring minds need to know.

[Plane]

"...........the proper answer would be in another song, addressed to the loud-mouth bully and telling him, "Ain't mah fault yer country sucks, man, an ef yew er yer fightin side wanna do ennathang abaowdit, come an geddit mah fren."  (I know, I won't quit my day job.)

...........
Wonder which one would get more airplay, assuming the songwriter would be up to Merle's level of talent and not mine? 

The answer my friend is blowin in the wind.


What were the big anti-establishment hits of China and the USSR contemporanious to these songs?

[Michael Tee]

<<What were the big anti-establishment hits of China and the USSR contemporanious to these songs?>>

Who gives a shit?  Neither China nor the U.S.S.R. pretends to be a bastion of freedom of expression for dissidents.  Never did.

[Plane]

<<What were the big anti-establishment hits of China and the USSR contemporanious to these songs?>>

Who gives a shit?  Neither China nor the U.S.S.R. pretends to be a bastion of freedom of expression for dissidents.  Never did.

That is why nobody liked to be there , if they know the whole of it. Wherever keeping the facts from the people is important to do, the people ought to show suspicion, lots .