MERLE HAGGARD'S LAST RIDE — THE BOXCAR BOY WHO CAME FULL CIRCLE In his later years, Merle Haggard often spoke of Oildale, California — the dusty oil-patch town outside Bakersfield where he was born on April 6, 1937, in a converted boxcar his father had remodeled into a home. It was the place where his Oklahoma-born parents had landed after the Dust Bowl drove them west, where his father worked the Santa Fe Railroad, and where a nine-year-old Merle's world cracked open the day his daddy died of a
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THE BOXCAR HIS FATHER BOUGHT FOR $500 BECAME THE ONLY HOME MERLE HAGGARD EVER WROTE HIS WAY BACK TO In 1935 his father paid ten dollars a month for an old Santa Fe boxcar in Oildale, just outside Bakersfield. James Haggard cut windows into the steel, added rooms, and made it a house. Merle was born inside it on April 6, 1937. His father died there when he was nine. He got out the way poor Oildale boys got out. Juvenile halls. San Quentin. Then 38 number-one hits and a sound that didn't come from
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Country Icon/Legend, Merle Haggard: being raised in a boxcar, death of his father & various prison escapes..... Merle was one of the few who actually was locked up in prison/jail continuously lol...but turned his life around & discovered his talent for Country Music.... We'll never have another like these hard ol' timers like The Hag.... On Prime Time Country with Bob Eubanks.... 🎶 Real Country Legends 🎶 #merlehaggard #primetimecountry #bobeubanks #fypシ #countrymusicartist #CountryMusicHistory
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