Merle Haggard — Misery and Gin

February 20, 2008

I’ve had the house to myself this week, so I’ve been able to do a few things I don’t normally do. (1) stretch out in bed, and (2) leave the radio on at night. I like the XM America channel a lot, and it’s been on nonstop in our bedroom since Sunday. Last night I woke up to a live version of Merle Haggard’s “Misery and Gin”–one of the all time classic drinking songs.

Here I am again mixin’ misery and gin

Sittin’ with all my friends and talkin’ to myself

There’s another really great line in the song too…one that shows how much of a poet Merle really is:

I light a lonely woman’s cigarette

We start talkin’ about what we wanna forget

I’ve written here before about the time I worked for UPS over Christmas and rode around with another guy who was a huge Merle Haggard fan. “Misery and Gin” was his favorite Hag song, and he did a solo of it for me every day.

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