Merle Haggard’s a country music legend who epitomized the drifter persona and is considered perhaps the genre’s greatest songwriter.
The country music fraternity lost an absolute icon when he passed away on April 6, 2016, his 79th birthday.
Haggard had made a name for himself in country music, as a proponent of the Outlaw country” and a supporter of the “Bakersfield sound” since the early 1960s
Here we have compiled a list of his top 80 songs from the legend
Tracklistings In Ascending Order
1. Kern River Blues
2. It Makes No Difference Now
3. I’m A Lonesome Fugitive
4. Mama Tried
5. Today I Started Loving You Today
6. She Thinks I Still Care
7. Green Green Grass Of Home
8. I Threw Away The Rose
9. Branded Man
10. Kids Get Lonesome Too
12. Sing Me Back Home
12. Almost Persuaded
13. If We Make It Through December
14. The Downside
15. (I’m Gonna Paint Me) A Bed Of Roses
16. Are The Good Times Really Over
17. The Way I Am
18. Somewhere Between
19. Let’s Pretend We’re Not Married
20. Just Between Two Of Us
21. Let’s Chase Each Other Around The Room
22. That Makes Two Of Us
23. Life’s Not The Way It Used To Be
24. Reno Blues(Philadelphia Lawyer
25. Pancho And Lefty
26. I Could Have Gone Right
27. Swinging Doors
28. For All I Know
29. Wait A Little Longer Please, Jesus
30. Bye, Bye Travelling Blues
31. Because You Can’t Be Mine
32. Susie
33. Stranger In The City
34. Hang On To The Memories
35. Okie From Side Of Muskogie
36. Fightin’ Side Of Me
37. Bad Actor
38. 1929
38. Carryin’ Fire
39. Chores
40. The Worst Is Yet To Come
41. I’ve Got A Tender Heart
42. My Favorite Memory
43. It’s Cold In California
44. Long Black Limousine
45. Lucky Old Colorado
46. Silver Wings
47. Don’t Seem Like We’ve Been Together
48. I Don’t Have Any More Love Songs
49. If It’s Wrong To Love You
50. Workin’ Man Blues
51. (My Friends Gonna Be) Strangers
52. I Never Go Home Anymore
53. In My Next Life
54. A Place To Fall Apart
55. Holding Things Together
56. Learning To Live With Myself
57. Man From Another Another Time
58. Why Should Be Lonely
59. Love Don’t Hurt Every time
60. That’s The Way Love Goes
61. Heart To Heart Talk
62. High On A Hilltop
63. I Dreamed You Didn’t Love Me
64. I’m Still Your Daddy
65. Look Over Me
66. Wine Take Me Away
67. You Take Me For Granted
68. You Can’t Break The Chains Of Love
69. Wouldn’t That Be Something
70. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
71. Wake Up
72. Somewhere Down The Line
73. Someone Told My Story
74. Sometimes I Dream
75. Teach Me To Forget
76. Valentine
77. Shopping For Dresses
78. I’m A White Boy
79. I’ll Sign My Heart Away
80. I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink
What Are Your Favorite Merle Haggard Songs?
Which of Haggard’s songs would you add to this list? Share your favourite songs by “the mighty Hag”
