Top Tens: Merle Haggard

[Razor X]

I don't know if I can narrow it down to just ten, but here goes:

1. Mama Tried
2. Sing Me Back Home
3. Workin' Man Blues
4. Okie from Muskogee
5. Today I Started Loving You Again
6. The Fightin' Side Of Me
7. You Take Me For Granted
8. Big City
9. Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)
10. That's The Way Love Goes

[Drew]

I just got into Merle a few months ago... some real good music. I probably haven't hear as many of his songs as many of you, but I think I've got enough to narrow it down into a pretty good collection of music:

1. Mama Tried
2. Okie From Muskogee
3. Big City
4. The Fightin' Side Of Me
5. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
6. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
7. Branded Man
8. Bar Room Buddies (w/ Clint Eastwood, who is one of my favorite actors)
9. Daddy Frank
10. Yesterday's Wine (w/ George Jones)

[Clemson Brad]

1. Thats The Way Love Goes
2. Mama Tried
3. Sing Me Back Home
4. It's All in the Movies
5. Misery and Gin
6. Today I Started Loving You Again
7. I think I'll just stay here and Drink
8. Working Man Blues
9. Fighting Side of Me
10. Rambling Fever

[Peter Durward Harris]

1 - If we make it through December
2 - Big city
3 - Mama tried
4 - Hungry eyes
5 - You'll always be special to me
6 - The roots of my raising
7 - My love affair with trains
8 - That's the way love goes (with Jewel)
9 - Branded man
10 - Today I started loving you again

[Occasional Hope]

1. Mama Tried
2. Today I Started Loving You Again
3. We're Strangers Again (with Leona Wiliams)
4. Sing Me Back Home
5. Leonard
6. Misery And Gin
7. Okie From Muskogee
8. I Think I've Found A Way To Live Without You (with George Jones)
9. Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
10. Hungry Eyes

[Trailer]

1. Old Man From the Mountain
2. Hungry Eyes
3. If We Make it Through December
4. The Bottle Let Me Down
5. Mama Tried
6. Ramblin' Fever
7. Things Aren't Funny Anymore
8. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
9. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
10. Swinging Doors

[pwdennis]

1 Sing Me Back Home
2 I Can't Be Myself
3 Mama Tried
4 I Threw Away The Rose
5 The Fugitive
6 Strangers
7 Rambling Fever
8 Swinging Doors
9 Leonard
10 California Blues

This is a totally impossible task. Weeding this down to ten songs is like deciding which are your favorite teeth - except for the wisdom teeth, they are all essential

I limited myself to singles, but there are so many great album cuts as well

[slim jim]

ooh ya! hag and the strangers.it doesn't get any better.of course to choose
only 10 is next to impossible but here are few off the top of my head.
in no particular order.

always on a mountain when i fall
heaven was a drink of wine
the way i am
i think i'll stay
swinging doors
silver wings
a place to fall apart
workin' man blues
my favorite memory
n.y.c. blues
and about 250 more