Merle Haggard

There's a thing that happens, like when you leave the penitentiary and you've been there for three years, you have friends and you have a way of life and you have a routine and a whole way of life that you just give up all of a sudden. One day you're there and the next day you're not there and you don't have any more friends

There's a thing that happens, like when you leave the penitentiary and you've been there for three years, you have friends and you have a way of life and you have a routine and a whole way of life that you just give up all of a sudden. One day you're there and the next day you're not there and you don't have any more friends

You don't have any more friends from the outside because things went on when you left and you can't find anybody there. And the people you left behind in prison are really your only friends. And there's a period of adjustment that took me about 120 days, I don't know, about four months. A couple of times I really wanted to go back. And it's really a weird sensation.

You don't have any more friends from the outside because things went on when you left and you can't find anybody there. And the people you left behind in prison are really your only friends. And there's a period of adjustment that took me about 120 days, I don't know, about four months. A couple of times I really wanted to go back. And it's really a weird sensation.

You don't have any more friends from the outside because things went on when you left and you can't find anybody there. And the people you left behind in prison are really your only friends. And there's a period of adjustment that took me about 120 days, I don't know, about four months. A couple of times I really wanted to go back. And it's really a weird sensation.

It's the loneliest feeling in the world about the second night out of the penitentiary.

It's the loneliest feeling in the world about the second night out of the penitentiary.

It's the loneliest feeling in the world about the second night out of the penitentiary.