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Album: Miscellaneous (2004)
Artists: Merle Haggard

  1. A Friend In California
  2. A Friend In California
  3. A Place To Fall Apart
  4. All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers
  5. All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers
  6. Are The Good Times Really Over (1982)
  7. Branded Man (1967)
  8. California Blues
  9. Carolyn
  10. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
  11. Fighting Side Of Me (1970)
  12. Fugitive (1967)
  13. Going Where The Lonely Go (1983)
  14. I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am (1969)
  15. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink (1981)
  16. I Threw Away The Rose (1967)
  17. If We Make It Through December
  18. If We're Not Back In Love By Monday (1977)
  19. Irma Jackson
  20. Irma Jackson
  21. It's All In The Movies (1975)
  22. Jesus Take A Hold (1970)
  23. Kern River (1985)
  24. Leonard (1981)
  25. Misery And Gin (1980)
  26. My Favorite Memory (1981)
  27. Out Among The Stars
  28. Out Among The Stars
  29. Planned Obsolescence
  30. Rainbow Stew (1981)
  31. Red Bandana (1979)
  32. That's The Way Love Goes (1984)
  33. The Bottle Let Me Down (1966)
  34. The Way I Am (1980)
  35. Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star (1988)
  36. Wake Up
  37. White Line Fever (1969)


Merle Haggard
Miscellaneous
Leonard (1981)
When Leonard finally came to California
He was twenty-one years old as I recall
He loved to write a song and pick the guitar
And he came to hang a gold one on the wall

The town in which he lived is not important
But you'll know which town I mean by the time I'm thru
He soon became a famous entertainer
But Leonard was a name he never used

He was on his way to having what he wanted
Just about as close as one could be
Hey once he even followed Elvis Presley
And he wrote a lot of country songs for me

But he laid it all a side to follow Jesus
For years he chose to let his music go
But preaching wasn't really meant for Leonard
But how in the hell was Leonard supposed to know

Well life began to twist its way around him
And I wondered how he carried such a load
He came back again to try his luck in music
And lost his wife and family on the road

After that he seemed to bog down even deeper
And I saw what booze and pills could really do
And I wondered if I'd ever see him sober
But I forgot about a friend that Leonard knew

Well Leonard gave me lots of inspiration
He helped teach me how to write a country song
And he even brought around a bag of groceries
Hey back before Muskogee came along

Really I'm not trying to hide his show name
Or the town in which this episode began
Somehow I had to write a song for old Tommy
If just to see the smiling faces in the band

When Leonard finally came to California
He was twenty-one years old as I recall
And he loved to write a song and pick the guitar
And he came to hang a Gold one on the wall
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