Merle Haggard - The best lyrics from "The Poet of the Common Man"

• There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told. - My Own Kind Of Hat
• I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be. - Are The Good Times Really Over For Good
• Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning. - Mama Tried
• Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free. - The Fighting Side Of Me
• Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast. - Misery And Gin
• I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days, while Mama used to pray my crops would fail. - I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
• I was born the running kind, leaving always on my mind. Home was never home to me at any time. Every front door found me hoping, I would find the back door open. There just had to be a lesson for the running kind - The Running Kind