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in San Francisco do
And 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

The Three Great Alabama Icons

Drive-By Truckers

Southern Rock Opera

2001

of Merle Haggard writin'
Okie from Muskogee to tell his dad's point of
View about the hippies 'n Vietnam, Ronnie felt
That the other side of the story

the tradition of Merle Haggard writing "Okie from Muskogee"
To tell his dad's point of view about the hippies and Vietnam,
Ronnie felt that the other side

gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell
Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle
I'll play every number that I can play
I'll see you maybe

It's a song I've always loved, anyway, from Bob Dylan, with Leon Russell playing it, and it's played as a sort of a heavy Blues feel and an Ian heard