Merle Haggard - "If I Could Only Fly" (Full Album Stream)

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  • Опубліковано 20 жов 2014
  • Listen to the full album at bit.ly/1vP0cAv
    "If I Could Only Fly" by Merle Haggard from the album 'If I Could Only Fly,' available now
    Download the album on iTunes: bit.ly/ZtgLHB

КОМЕНТАРІ • 122

  • @James-nz2tk
    @James-nz2tk Рік тому +28

    This song reaches down into a soul I sometimes doubt is there... & pulls it up into the sunlight.
    I discovered it years ago & go back to it religiously when I am feeling blue.
    I cry every time I listen to it, but they are happy tears because I think of my family & of my girl, & realise they are still here & so am I,
    & I find the strength to put one foot in front of the other & be the man I need to be.
    I’m so lucky, & this song reminds me.

  • @dalegriffin6768
    @dalegriffin6768 5 днів тому +1

    We played this song at my older brothers funeral,its one of the saddest songs ever written,my brother loved it, i hope he is happy now because he battled depression and was very intelligent person,he was reading alot of philosophy and was preparing for his death.I really felt guilty for a long time about his death,but im finally getting to where i can deal with it now,i just live for the moment and appreciate every minute of the day,to anyone that has a sibling or child that has committed suicide i pray that you are able to deal with it and that there is help for those suffering from depression,God bless and wish everyone the best..

  • @patriciaskinner2512
    @patriciaskinner2512 5 місяців тому +4

    Merle was my brother's favorite country singer and evertime I listen to him I feel like I can hold on to a little piece of him,because I know he has listened to all Merle songs a bunch of times. I miss my brother more than I can put into words. I wish I could fly I would definitely fly to where he is
    Thanks Merle for all the memories ❤ ❤

  • @travisgold5221
    @travisgold5221 4 роки тому +23

    A beautifully written song being sang by a beautifully talented storyteller. RIP HAG. RIP FOLEY.

  • @karenbritt8888
    @karenbritt8888 2 місяці тому +2

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY MERLE HAGGARD ❤❤❤ YOU CAN FLY NOW. WE ALL MISS YOU.GOD LOVE YA. AND BLESS YOU'RE FAMILY ❤❤❤

  • @gavinporter9022
    @gavinporter9022 3 роки тому +22

    Merle was my Dads favorite singer, and this song really makes me think of him. What I wouldn't do to hear and see you one more time. This song is so hard to listen to, but it reminds me that he isn't far away. Love and miss you pops ❤

  • @JoeMeier-ip8ft
    @JoeMeier-ip8ft 2 місяці тому +2

    A beautiful love song. To my departed. See ya soon.

  • @brianreeder5954
    @brianreeder5954 7 років тому +30

    the 10 who dislike actually have a very difficult time baring the song from past or present pain.

  • @HardRockMiner
    @HardRockMiner 5 місяців тому +4

    Merle and Blaze are together now. Soon, the luckiest of us will be there with them.

  • @littleogeechee223
    @littleogeechee223 2 місяці тому +1

    Merle you were the GOAT, son! Sing this to my beautiful little mama from me when you see her up there! I love you both!

  • @jakusings8352
    @jakusings8352 2 роки тому +9

    Just lost my dog.. I miss him so much.. this song just feels right

  • @anitaschvitz9749
    @anitaschvitz9749 4 роки тому +8

    My favorite singer of all. Saw him a bunch of times, my favorite was in '83 ( I was 18 years old) at Billy bob's in Fort Worth stockyards. I was 20' away and eating dinner while Mighty Merle sat in a chair with a guitar and played dinner music.

  • @jesseorona7737
    @jesseorona7737 3 роки тому +7

    Remember when Country would sing to your ears and heart.Give me Patsy,Jones,Rodriguez,Price or Robbins the working man blues and let's go back to thanking GOD,waving the flag and respecting our Constitution.

    • @johnhenry9743
      @johnhenry9743 3 місяці тому +1

    • @triciaduck7561
      @triciaduck7561 5 днів тому

      I know what you mean . My soulmate has been gone since September 17, 2015

  • @DeepCDriller
    @DeepCDriller 5 років тому +33

    I miss this voice
    Got to see him a dozen times or so.
    What a legend...

    • @jaykoepke9250
      @jaykoepke9250 4 роки тому +2

      JoneseyBhoy check out his sons they kick

    • @lindawadley6077
      @lindawadley6077 4 роки тому

      Jay Koepke Yes they are very very good and sound much like their dad then has a son that I hope will follow in their shoes I love them all

  • @lakerat3
    @lakerat3 3 роки тому +11

    Thanks to my hero for doing Blaze song memorable for both of you. RIP to both

  • @wambuguenergy7635
    @wambuguenergy7635 9 років тому +9

    What a lovely life you had Merle, your Music has made me what i am. RIP. George

  • @jonnjones6925
    @jonnjones6925 7 місяців тому +1

    Love the Hag with all my heart!!!❤️🤠🫶🔥😎 forget about it!!! One of the greats of this era!!!🤠😎❤️❤️‍🔥🙏

  • @kevinfoss5461
    @kevinfoss5461 Рік тому +2

    I miss my grandma so much this makes me think of her

  • @brianscott6949
    @brianscott6949 3 роки тому +39

    Every time I hear this song, I miss my wife even more.

    • @kathleenmills1956
      @kathleenmills1956 2 роки тому +2

      ❤️

    • @joshuac1285
      @joshuac1285 2 роки тому +1

      🙏🏻

    • @gbok8310
      @gbok8310 2 роки тому +7

      Everytime I listen to this song, I read your comment and cry.

    • @kinnyvogele7688
      @kinnyvogele7688 2 роки тому +3

      I’m sorry for your loss pard. Hopefully one day you’ll see her again.

    • @ncfourni
      @ncfourni Рік тому

      How beautiful to have a love that sings to you; what a wonderful gift to find love, however brief, it is never long enough.

  • @paulinekenny8667
    @paulinekenny8667 8 років тому +16

    one of my favourite's ,but they were all my favourite's. you were special Merle,, God Bless 💚💚💚💚

  • @kevinmcminn5954
    @kevinmcminn5954 4 роки тому +3

    This song means so much to me. If you ever loved a women and are separated by distance, you'll understand this song completely. The longing never ends.

  • @susanholt9119
    @susanholt9119 9 років тому +10

    GOD BLESS YOU MERLE.. YOU HELPED ME TO LIVE A BETTER LIFE AND MADE GRAT MEMORYS FOR LATER ON. THANK- YOU FOR SHARING YOURSELF WITH US.

  • @patsyeast1584
    @patsyeast1584 6 років тому +4

    Sing a song for me in Heaven ...I will see you there one day ..Rest in Peace sweet Merle

    • @owen7341
      @owen7341 3 роки тому +1

      Merles up their kickin so much ass

  • @Hagfan789
    @Hagfan789 4 роки тому +5

    I remember the first time I heard this song...It was at a HAG show right before this album was released. Great stuff. Album released in 2000 titled, "If I Could Only Fly".

  • @eduardomotta8177
    @eduardomotta8177 7 років тому +12

    If we could only fly
    There'd be no more lonely nights
    Beautiful song Merle Haggard

  • @coolohiobreeze2037
    @coolohiobreeze2037 7 років тому +3

    Love you Merle. Miss you so much. All I had to do was hear your voice and it would make me smile. Still does.......... Yeah. I miss you.

  • @wolfmamglass2911
    @wolfmamglass2911 7 років тому +16

    Beautiful song Merle Haggard The Legend

    • @sickboy3883
      @sickboy3883 3 роки тому +1

      That's actually written by another legend, the late Blaze Foley

  • @jameschambers7457
    @jameschambers7457 2 роки тому +2

    2022 and u still make me cry

  • @sisterresister2532
    @sisterresister2532 3 роки тому +1

    Wow. May your nights be full of all the love and companionship surrounding you now. If I could only fly I would be where I am loved.

  • @marylouguidry7286
    @marylouguidry7286 4 місяці тому +1

    So Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

  • @katmandew2152
    @katmandew2152 5 місяців тому

    Just great writing and performance. Life CHANGING for me
    Thanks.

  • @maireadpower6475
    @maireadpower6475 3 роки тому +3

    I love this song ❤️❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @joyceb.sachsesachse1242
    @joyceb.sachsesachse1242 Рік тому +2

    Blaze Foley is the writer of this song . Look up his few records he gave to us until he was shot , perfecting a old man from his son who abused him and stole the old man's welfare checks . It happen in Texas, Austin, I believe........ Merle is king with a song called Kern River , but there are hobo song writers out there like Blaze and Towns Van Zandt, you need to listen to , a lot of them had mental issues and did not fit in with music folks , but were song writers up there with the best ....please look them up and listen to these guys...they will break your heart and leave you humble and leave you a better person for doing so...

    • @austinphotographer
      @austinphotographer 8 місяців тому

      Hi Joyce, I photographed Blaze's first CD Oval Room and I am remiss how Merle doesn't pay much credit to Blaze for this song but it did put Blaze on the map for which I'm grateful. I like Blaze's version better. And Townes, I got one photo on Live & Obscure and both Blaze and Townes were great friends of mine, more so Blaze. we were like brothers. He let me know we shared the same last name (Fuller) in an embarrassing for me way but it all worked out.

  • @mikekossnar8362
    @mikekossnar8362 4 роки тому +3

    You can fly now, Merle

  • @anelladambrosio2513
    @anelladambrosio2513 Рік тому +2

    Amo questa canzone!una delle più belle di Merle...😊🥰😍😍😍💘💕💕💕💕

  • @brendenwilson8316
    @brendenwilson8316 4 роки тому +3

    This is music for the soul...

  • @chrisjohnson4095
    @chrisjohnson4095 6 років тому +5

    Thank you Merle

  • @ianburry5629
    @ianburry5629 6 місяців тому

    Great singer that he was...and make no mistake...he was a great singer...Merle was just singing a song...when Blaze sang it he was singing his life...there's a very big difference.

  • @stephanies564
    @stephanies564 6 років тому +26

    Written by Blaze Foley, made a hit by Merle.

  • @davebargo9844
    @davebargo9844 7 років тому +4

    Wow first I have heard him sing this version my new favorite !!

  • @xine9992
    @xine9992 Рік тому +1

    A beautiful surprise on My Mix.

  • @mainmaines
    @mainmaines 9 місяців тому +1

    Best version of this song

    • @bustercherry8734
      @bustercherry8734 7 місяців тому

      Nah. Not gonna beat Blaze. Maybe not the album version so much. His singing is a lot better on the live version. The best version.
      ua-cam.com/video/BBx8fRP_UxM/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BlazeFoley-Topic

  • @kimberlycorneal8694
    @kimberlycorneal8694 3 роки тому +3

    Idk why but it makes me think of my mom she passed may 25,2015

  • @jerryhopper1685
    @jerryhopper1685 Рік тому +1

    This is a awesome song thank you Hagg 🎸🎸🎸

  • @hesousa8488
    @hesousa8488 8 місяців тому +2

    Música maravilhosa

  • @maireadpower6475
    @maireadpower6475 3 роки тому +4

    Powerful song ❤️❤️💚I think a lot of us in these times feel the same way.. maybe it's just me 🤔

    • @allenhughes12
      @allenhughes12 3 роки тому

    • @myrabrock481
      @myrabrock481 3 роки тому +1

      I know I feel this way. Oh if I could go back to the good times.

  • @snaggletooth7031
    @snaggletooth7031 7 років тому +5

    i could smoke n listn to the hag all day n nite..(i no .this is a blaze foley tune) R.I.P M.H

  • @clydeange3425
    @clydeange3425 2 роки тому +1

    Very lovely song

  • @cityzen2717
    @cityzen2717 5 років тому +4

    If you dream about flying, it's supposed to mean you are in a situation you wish to escape.

    • @owen7341
      @owen7341 3 роки тому

      This comment reminds me so much of how ppl talk in pokemon gameboy games

    • @owen7341
      @owen7341 3 роки тому

      All vague and deep and unsolicited

    • @owen7341
      @owen7341 3 роки тому +1

      Im not tryna talk shit. Im grateful u posted this

  • @katmandew2152
    @katmandew2152 5 місяців тому

    There is no " I can't" my dear girl
    God is with you sweetie.

  • @austinduenas7934
    @austinduenas7934 6 місяців тому

    A Blaze Foley original about leaving his wife.. covered by Merle Haggard. He has the same authenticity playing this as blaze did. What a great cover.

  • @oldguy3074
    @oldguy3074 3 роки тому +7

    Holy crap ! How did i miss this ? written by Blaze Foley check him out !

  • @edwardlouiscampbelljr8638
    @edwardlouiscampbelljr8638 7 років тому +8

    just cant beat a hag song

  • @juanperianez5471
    @juanperianez5471 4 роки тому +3

    Único e irrepetible el mas grande

  • @isaacnewlin7645
    @isaacnewlin7645 11 місяців тому

    Love ol Merle an not trying to pick on him but it gets me everytime i hear him do this song that I've never heard him give any credit to Blaze...

  • @stansmith2824
    @stansmith2824 3 роки тому +1

    TellUm Jones sent ya!
    🇱🇷❤🤘😎🤘❤🇱🇷

  • @timothycrouch5922
    @timothycrouch5922 3 роки тому +2

    The man that's it

  • @bagoesv.leeuwen7413
    @bagoesv.leeuwen7413 Місяць тому

    Thank you. Blaze Foley

  • @Dylanesque
    @Dylanesque 10 місяців тому +1

    Somewhere Boy brought me to this place.

  • @georgepayne1242
    @georgepayne1242 3 роки тому +2

    that's how I feel

  • @stephendobson6472
    @stephendobson6472 4 роки тому +2

    How great is this?

  • @royacree5227
    @royacree5227 Місяць тому

    Exactly the way Blaze sang it….

  • @TracieHump
    @TracieHump Рік тому

    Oh my gawd!!!!!

  • @rileykunk7178
    @rileykunk7178 8 років тому +4

    ya

  • @RobinHarper-tv9ih
    @RobinHarper-tv9ih 5 місяців тому

    Almost a year,mama left,it’s rough on daddy 😢

  • @wgrimm88
    @wgrimm88 Рік тому

    Blaze Foley !!!!

  • @BigMikeD10001
    @BigMikeD10001 Рік тому

    cool

  • @curtisgriggs9867
    @curtisgriggs9867 Рік тому

    Blaze Foley

  • @LostJukeboxVolumes
    @LostJukeboxVolumes 2 роки тому

    My Name is Doris Hi

  • @georgebird39
    @georgebird39 4 місяці тому

    Blaze version is best

  • @MRFUCR
    @MRFUCR 4 роки тому

    This is Blaze ,ffs

    • @ranunculusrepens3726
      @ranunculusrepens3726 3 роки тому

      No. It’s Merle doing the cover. I thought the same for a split second. Amazing.

  • @royzee28
    @royzee28 4 роки тому +2

    26 brain dead December 2019

  • @MariaMaria-oo3kj
    @MariaMaria-oo3kj Рік тому +2

    Blaze Foley the king! Remember the song is his. Arrogant singers sing it as their own. Shame.

  • @realitycheck7556
    @realitycheck7556 4 роки тому +5

    I love Merle but Blazes original is better, sorry Merle.

    • @oigloriousoi
      @oigloriousoi 4 роки тому +2

      There are earlier versions of Merle doing it that are amazing

    • @myrabrock481
      @myrabrock481 3 роки тому +2

      I love Merle

    • @nicolasdelaforge7420
      @nicolasdelaforge7420 Рік тому

      He's never sang this awful... was he just awakened from sleep?
      Nichols has a great version but I'll have to listen to Foley's.

    • @scooter661133
      @scooter661133 6 місяців тому

      awful? hes just old
      @@nicolasdelaforge7420

  • @billmervyn1645
    @billmervyn1645 7 років тому +2

    They're all gone now... Willie and Kris are around (thank God) , but after them.. then what?

    • @glendapelton224
      @glendapelton224 6 років тому +1

      so true

    • @slick777go
      @slick777go 5 років тому +2

      Good question

    • @MrALF423
      @MrALF423 5 років тому +2

      The good old country is doomed to disappear due to NO TALENT ...

  • @murph3001
    @murph3001 7 місяців тому

    Sorry I may be wrong BUT this isn't Merle !

  • @delcaplette7676
    @delcaplette7676 2 місяці тому

    I miss you my Laurie girl. God I miss you.

  • @Bennyndorothy2121
    @Bennyndorothy2121 14 днів тому

    I’ll miss you till the day I die my puppy 💔