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I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.
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A lot of things that I said I sing with a different intention now.
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I've lived at the very end of what must have been a wonderful country.
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The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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They got laws for the white man and laws for the black man — we all know that.
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Yesterday's wine, yesterday's wine
We're Aging with time, like yesterday's wine
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Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
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Songs, I think, are more important than human beings. They really are. They live on forever.
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Politicians do all the talking, soldiers pay the dues,
Suddenly the war's over, that's the news.
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Lefty Frizzell said you don't have to experience everything to sing about it. But you've got to believe it.
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It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.
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I'll tell you why it's different when somebody else is singing "Mama Tried": They're reading the words. I'm telling the story.
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Everybody's had the blues sometimes
And everybody knows the tune
And everybody knows the way I'm feelin'
Cause everybody's had the blues.
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The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
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I had different views in the '70s. As a human being, I've learned.... I have more culture now. I was dumb as a rock when I wrote 'Okie from Muskogee'.
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We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street
We like living right and being free.
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I'm in a very small percentage of people ever in the joint who beat it. It's like 2 percent of 2 percent. If you've ever been to the joint, you're going back.
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We don't make a party out of lovin';
We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo;
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.
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Seventy is a big mark. I'm feeling good. But Bing Crosby felt good, too, and he came off the eighteenth hole, just kind of laid down in the grass, and that was that.
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I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home
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I'm friends with George Bush Sr. He calls to wish me happy birthday. But I've got lots of friends that call to wish me happy birthday who I wouldn't want to see become president.
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Suddenly the cost of war is somethin' out of sight
Lost a lotta heroes in the fight
Politicians do all the talkin': soldiers pay the dues
Suddenly the war is over, that's the news.
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I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.
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Dear old Daddy rest his soul
Left my mom a heavy load
She tried so very hard to fill his shoes
Working hours without rest
Wanted me to have the best
She tried to raise me right but I refused.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
April 6, 1937
Died:
April 6, 2016
(aged 79)
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