Merle Haggard es uno de los cantantes de country más influyentes desde Hank Williams. Su carrera comenzó cuando se coló en los camerinos de la leyenda del country Lefty Frizzell cuando era adolescente. Impresionado por sus canciones, Frizzell se negó a volver al escenario hasta que Haggard cantara una canción – a un público que tuvo una cálida acogida. Junto a Buck Owens y Wynn Stewart, fue un pionero de la escena country de Bakersfield en los 60
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
EAE I came back to California cause my home was here BE To look up my old sweetheart just for fun AE Mom and Dad had both passed on in two short years BE While my patriotic chores bein’ done
I saw changes all around me and some were good But I hardly recognized my side of town They tore down the swingin' casing from the cottowood And that tree was all that marked familar ground.
Chorus: EAE Oh, they're tearin' the labor camps down G#C#m And I feel a little sentimental shame AE Where's a working man gonna live at in this town BE Oh, they're tearin' the labor camps down.
The Hilltop family market had been moved somewhere And the name was changed to fit the newer homes The things that I remember were no longer there And the cabin that my daddy built was gone.