>
> > Okie from Muskogee was a joke song. As Haggard has said about the
> > "we don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee" line... "Muskogee is the only
> > place I don't smoke it." Haggard smokes dope all the time.
>
>Weren't they high when they wrote the song?
>
>Doug
I hadn't heard that but just found this on a list called Vietnam War Forum:
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Swain, Ralph wrote:
> I saw a interview recently with Merle Haggard and he said his intention
> of "Okie from Muskogee" was NOT for "red-neck" purposes and that he was
> stoned on grass when he cut the record. Interesting, huh? Apparently,
> even Johnny Cash mistook Merle's intention and chewed him out publicly
> for inciting derision against long hairs.
>
> Billy Joel's song, if I'm not mistaken, is actually called, "Goodnight
> Saigon" and not "Parris Island."
>
> I have the original 45 rpm record(complete with rumbles and scratches)of
> Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets."
>
> Ralph A. Swain, assoc. prof. (Viet-Nam vet)
> Program Director/Dept. of Mass Communications
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