Merle Haggard

The worst? Oh, man. There was a lot of bad experiences. I got on a freight in Oregon one time, and it was leaving out of Eugene, and it went up into the Cascades and into a snowstorm, and I was traveling in the ice compartment, and me and two other oboes was in there, and it got rather cold in that metal.

I remember they stopped up in the mountains and then climbed up out of that ice compartment, and I'm shaking so bad that I dropped my suitcase off the top of the freight, and I had to get off for a while and get her up in my clothes.

I remember they stopped up in the mountains and then climbed up out of that ice compartment, and I'm shaking so bad that I dropped my suitcase off the top of the freight, and I had to get off for a while and get her up in my clothes.

I remember they stopped up in the mountains and then climbed up out of that ice compartment, and I'm shaking so bad that I dropped my suitcase off the top of the freight, and I had to get off for a while and get her up in my clothes.

Somehow or another, somebody watched out for me. I didn't get anything like that.

Somehow or another, somebody watched out for me. I didn't get anything like that.

Somehow or another, somebody watched out for me. I didn't get anything like that.

I didn't run into any players on the freight. Just people traveling, you know. For different reasons, I'm sure. I don't know. Most of them probably for the same reasons. I think they were probably hobos, you know. And... I remember one time I stole a can of beans out of a refrigerator car and threw it up into this box car where all the rest of the hobos were riding.

I didn't run into any players on the freight. Just people traveling, you know. For different reasons, I'm sure. I don't know. Most of them probably for the same reasons. I think they were probably hobos, you know. And... I remember one time I stole a can of beans out of a refrigerator car and threw it up into this box car where all the rest of the hobos were riding.

I didn't run into any players on the freight. Just people traveling, you know. For different reasons, I'm sure. I don't know. Most of them probably for the same reasons. I think they were probably hobos, you know. And... I remember one time I stole a can of beans out of a refrigerator car and threw it up into this box car where all the rest of the hobos were riding.

And, boy, they got really upset. They said, oh, we're going to get 50 years in the penitentiary. You know, you must be a really green guy. You know, and there was nobody who would share that. a box of green beans except one old man, and he was about 80 years old, and he threw a spoon and a can opener across the boxcar to me and said, I'll help you eat them, son.

And, boy, they got really upset. They said, oh, we're going to get 50 years in the penitentiary. You know, you must be a really green guy. You know, and there was nobody who would share that. a box of green beans except one old man, and he was about 80 years old, and he threw a spoon and a can opener across the boxcar to me and said, I'll help you eat them, son.

And, boy, they got really upset. They said, oh, we're going to get 50 years in the penitentiary. You know, you must be a really green guy. You know, and there was nobody who would share that. a box of green beans except one old man, and he was about 80 years old, and he threw a spoon and a can opener across the boxcar to me and said, I'll help you eat them, son.

Well, it really is, very close at least. There's some things we fudged on slightly to make it rhyme, but the majority of it, I'd say 97% of it's pretty accurate, I guess.

Well, it really is, very close at least. There's some things we fudged on slightly to make it rhyme, but the majority of it, I'd say 97% of it's pretty accurate, I guess.

Well, it really is, very close at least. There's some things we fudged on slightly to make it rhyme, but the majority of it, I'd say 97% of it's pretty accurate, I guess.

Yeah, and I was... To say the least, probably the most incorrigible child you could think of. I was already on the way to prison before I realized it, actually. I was really kind of a screw-up. And I really don't know why. I think it was mostly just out of boredom and lack of a father's attention, I think.

Yeah, and I was... To say the least, probably the most incorrigible child you could think of. I was already on the way to prison before I realized it, actually. I was really kind of a screw-up. And I really don't know why. I think it was mostly just out of boredom and lack of a father's attention, I think.

Yeah, and I was... To say the least, probably the most incorrigible child you could think of. I was already on the way to prison before I realized it, actually. I was really kind of a screw-up. And I really don't know why. I think it was mostly just out of boredom and lack of a father's attention, I think.

No, she didn't put me in a juvenile home. The authorities put me in there for truancy, for not going to school. And they gave me six months in like a road camp situation. And I ran off from there and stole a car. And so then the next time I went back, it was for something serious. And then I spent the next seven years running off from places.