This song epitomizes how music makes me feel. As I sit by myself, listening to this song, my eyes are filled with tears as the music transports me to when my dad was still living. Oh I miss those days. Songs like these reconnect me to my dad. Thank you Merle!
There will never be another voice like Merle's. I used to lie in bed at night and listen to his albums on the record player. Oh, for the days of the truly great country and western artists.
I want this song and version played at my funeral when my time comes, sing me back home for sure. love this artist and tune. thanks Merle, he plays on the biggest stage of em all now, thats for sure!
Merle If you can still hear us.. We still love you and still listening to the best of u..❤❤❤ I'm 55 and grew up with your music.. My Uncle Frank traveled with you for a year..he still brings up so many fond memories.. He enjoyed picking and singing with you on your tour bus...
Every time l heard my lovecountrysonger Merle in this song l am very crazylove !!! Merle you are sublimissime exceptionnel songer ... thanks for all RIP with my heartache 👍❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻sincerely admiration and thoughts respectueuses to wonderfull Haggardfamily 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉(2023/05/20)❤❤❤ with respect and love forever ❤
I just love the feeling this song has. To sing with feeling, with soul, is something that can't be taught. You can be the best technical musician in the world, but what good is it if you got no feeling?
Merle com certeza aonde você está continua cantando como nunca.voce e o único com essa voz linda e essa guitarra de aço e incomparável.bons tempos.!!!!!
Merle was the best entertainer ever, I listen to his music whenever I can just love that guy and his music, God rest his soul. He was one in a million.❤
In his book, Merle tells of a time when he asked Buck Owens for a loan. Buck tells Merle that he'd loan Merle the money if Merle gave Buck the rights to, "Sing Me Back Home'. Well, Buck failed to tell Merle that he had a $15k check in his desk drawer, made out to Merle Haggard, for 'Sing Me Back Home'. Merle signed over the rights to a great song that he didn't need to. Buck Owens, what a wonderful human being.😡
Merle was my Dad's favorite! I sat on the back porch many times and sang these with Daddy! I was the record changer! He had many LP's he loved back then! This was my favorite! Miss you Daddy!
This is very sad news. Merle has been a living legend for as long as I can remember. His name alone, throughout my entire life, has been synonymous with genuine country music. Merle Haggard defined country music. May he rest in peace.
A monumental figure in American popular music has died. First rate singer, player and brilliant songwriter--Hag gave all of us so much. May we have a thought for him today. Thank you.
I love the live versions like these. Slower than the recordings and we get the "Tear your heart out" tones. Especially 'Sing Me Back Home' and 'Long Black Limousine' . Makes the heart do a flip for real.
Been listening to Merle since I was probably 10 yrs old, I'm 66 now. There have been a few other singers that I really like Alan for instance but then I hear Merle and he takes me back to my childhood. Sure sad to see him gone but never forgotten.
You're absolutely right about the CMA Awards--didn't recognize 75% of the names of this so called country music--we're losing our true country artists.
This song really brings out the quality of his voice. I love all of his songs. He was the best singer of all time. Glad I got to meet him when my band opened for him in Ohio at a Country Music Park. Rest in Peace Sir. Brenda.
Thanks mr dansteelman for thus postjng 😢 Merle maķing with great talent this interpretation sublime with real personality artistic and tenderness ❤❤❤ l love my côuntryloversonger forever RIP for him wîth my heartache 1!11😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 one more time great thanks and admiration to you sincerely respectueuses friendlys ❤❤❤ (2023/01/10) so long ❤
after watching the Country Music Awards last night it really made me stop and think where has country music gone and I guess just look up at the sky and that's where all the greats are
My Dad, a Marine in Korean War, a Marine, he loved Merle! I was record changer as he sat on back porch singing these songs while my Mama cooked dinner, sat out there and sang with him! Miss those days!
Rhonda Boncutter - I love Merle too , my dad died while in the Army , he loved Merle, I was 6 when my dad died , I’m 54 now and been listening to Merle since I was 4 , I love Merle
This is the young Merle Haggard, back in the year 1978. I love the song, reminds me of what my beloved Papa Bear used to say, " Sing Me Back Home, before I die, home to Papa Bear , was the Nicola Valley. Now of course he is with our Lord.
I remember going places with my dad when I was little he always listened to haggard and all the other ol country glad i got to grow up on it thanks to my parents
A Great version of a great song...There are live renditions of this song that Merle really puts his all into.. this may have been one of them if the crowd wasn't so dead..I would have given anything to have been there..Awesome..
Hag will be forever missed and loved.I was able to see him perform live and was a highlight of my life.He was amazing and is singing for the lord now. God Bless you Merle Haggard.
Rest in peace Merle. One of the best singer song writers EVER. With his passing an end of an era, ' Are the Good Times Really Over"?...starting to feel like it....
The warden led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom I stood up to say good-bye like all the rest And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell "Let my guitar playing friend do my request." (Let him) [Chorus] Sing me back home with a song I used to hear Make my old memories come alive Take me away and turn back the years Sing Me Back Home before I die [Verse 2] I recall last Sunday morning a choir from off the street Came in to sing a few old gospel songs And I heard him tell the singers "There's a song my mama sang Could I hear it once before you move along?"
I have watched this clip so many times--a real favorite of this particular song--RIP Merle and I hope you and the Possum are putting on concerts for the angels
One of my all time favorites...The Grateful Dead play a great live version of this song...I have always felt that the warden is "time" and we are the prisoner in life being led down that long hallway, just reaching out for our own special guitar playing friend to help us relive those great memories of our life... Merle Haggard is a pure song writer....its why great bands like the Dead play it as a tribute to a genius
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Merle is the greatest song writer that's ever lived on this earth!!!
Agreed.
You can also thank Bonnie his wife, she played a big part in all of it!
Merle Haggard was so so real! He never denied he made wrong choices! I will always love this man! My Dad loved him! God Bless you all, be safe!!
This song epitomizes how music makes me feel. As I sit by myself, listening to this song, my eyes are filled with tears as the music transports me to when my dad was still living. Oh I miss those days. Songs like these reconnect me to my dad. Thank you Merle!
BEST COUNTRY SINGER TO EVER STEP ON A STAGE! PURE CLASS! RIP MR HAG WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU! 💜🙏
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There will never be another voice like Merle's. I used to lie in bed at night and listen to his albums on the record player. Oh, for the days of the truly great country and western artists.
What a voice.
What can possibly beat the emotion Merle puts into this song? 2018
2018, I will always love Merle! My Dad's favorite drinking music!
Ben Craft You're right Ben you can feel Merle's emotions as he sings this. He had first hand experience as he was a prisoner at San Quentin.
Back when you knew you were listening to real country music. Merle , Bonnie, Ronnie and the Strangers. Thanks for sharing this!
I want this song and version played at my funeral when my time comes, sing me back home for sure. love this artist and tune. thanks Merle, he plays on the biggest stage of em all now, thats for sure!
He was truly the VERY BEST , R.I.P. Merle. 🙏🏼👍🏿👍🏿
@@judemcmaster574 Yep! they dont make em like Merle no more. he was the finest.
Merle If you can still hear us.. We still love you and still listening to the best of u..❤❤❤ I'm 55 and grew up with your music.. My Uncle Frank traveled with you for a year..he still brings up so many fond memories.. He enjoyed picking and singing with you on your tour bus...
Merle Haggard at his best. Merle poet of the common man. R.I.P Hag 🎸🎻🎶🎵
Every time l heard my lovecountrysonger Merle in this song l am very crazylove !!! Merle you are sublimissime exceptionnel songer ... thanks for all RIP with my heartache 👍❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻sincerely admiration and thoughts respectueuses to wonderfull Haggardfamily 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉(2023/05/20)❤❤❤ with respect and love forever ❤
I just love the feeling this song has. To sing with feeling, with soul, is something that can't be taught. You can be the best technical musician in the world, but what good is it if you got no feeling?
The man could sing. What a great voice.
No doubt the GREATEST EVER !!
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Merle com certeza aonde você está continua cantando como nunca.voce e o único com essa voz linda e essa guitarra de aço e incomparável.bons tempos.!!!!!
one of my favorites...thank you dad and mom to open my ears to this beautiful music.
Hag, you will live on forever..You're music will never die...
He will be forever missed! Music legend that ever lived!
Amen! A big part of my childhood!
Can someone please take me back to a better time.
He touches me like an arrow through my heart
Merle was the best entertainer ever, I listen to his music whenever I can just love that guy and his music, God rest his soul. He was one in a million.❤
If I could write my stories as good as Merle Haggard sings his songs I'd be a happy man. COLANE
How do you even write a song like that.
I mean, where do you even begin.
It's SO PERFECT!
In his book, Merle tells of a time when he asked Buck Owens for a loan. Buck tells Merle that he'd loan Merle the money if Merle gave Buck the rights to, "Sing Me Back Home'. Well, Buck failed to tell Merle that he had a $15k check in his desk drawer, made out to Merle Haggard, for
'Sing Me Back Home'. Merle signed over the rights to a great song that he didn't need to. Buck Owens, what a wonderful human being.😡
Merle haggard sang with such heart ❤️👍 love you Merle! RIP
This was country music at it's finest. Way to go Merle.
miss you Merle ,song makes me cry .............
Merle was my Dad's favorite! I sat on the back porch many times and sang these with Daddy! I was the record changer! He had many LP's he loved back then! This was my favorite! Miss you Daddy!
One of his best..HEARTFELT..THIS GUY WAS GREAT,
Every time I hear this song it bring tears to my eyes.
When country was cool back then
This is very sad news. Merle has been a living legend for as long as I can remember. His name alone, throughout my entire life, has been synonymous with genuine country music. Merle Haggard defined country music. May he rest in peace.
God has a wonderful singer in his heavenly choir! I loved this mans songs for so many years! Makes me remember my Dad!
RIP Merle Haggard. This song always tugged at my heartstrings. One of my favorite songs.
A monumental figure in American popular music has died. First rate singer, player and brilliant songwriter--Hag gave all of us so much. May we have a thought for him today. Thank you.
R.I.P Merle Haggard,your music will never die.
M wife and I were fortunate enough to see Merle in thew last year of his life in Kelowna BC
So, so good. One of his very best "classic" songs. Love it, love the man.
It's a shame there is no music left like this and never will be again
I love the live versions like these. Slower than the recordings and we get the "Tear your heart out" tones. Especially 'Sing Me Back Home' and 'Long Black Limousine' . Makes the heart do a flip for real.
Beautiful harmony by wife Bonnie Owens. Absolutely beautiful musical arrangement also. God Bless Merle.
Merles interpretation and deliverance of a country song will never be repeated by any modern day country singer...will be well missed..
Masterful job! When he tells a story, you are there, living every moment. 2018
RIP on your 79th Birthday today! One of the very greatest singers/musicians that has ever graced a stage. Heavens music just got even better!
Been listening to Merle since I was probably 10 yrs old, I'm 66 now. There have been a few other singers that I really like Alan for instance but then I hear Merle and he takes me back to my childhood. Sure sad to see him gone but never forgotten.
R.I.P. to the GREATEST Country Music Star that EVER lived!!!.
Patrick Stidham amen to that.
You're absolutely right about the CMA Awards--didn't recognize 75% of the names of this so called country music--we're losing our true country artists.
I’m glad I grew up listening to Merle, thanks to my Father ! !
I grew up listening to Merle Haggard, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, and my favorite Johnny Cash. God bless them all. They are Country music.
and conway also countrys best
Marty Robbins too.
Me, too. I was born in 1959, and I wish I still had my parent's record collection.
they are the jewels of best country music .
Sing me back home before I die. Love Merle Haggard Bless him
I just love this performance, his voice is so strong, powerful, clear and crisp. Thanks for posting.
This song really brings out the quality of his voice. I love all of his songs. He was the best singer of all time. Glad I got to meet him when my band opened for him in Ohio at a Country Music Park. Rest in Peace Sir. Brenda.
Classic Merle...and what a great song. Singing you back home Merle.
Thanks mr dansteelman for thus postjng 😢 Merle maķing with great talent this interpretation sublime with real personality artistic and tenderness ❤❤❤ l love my côuntryloversonger forever RIP for him wîth my heartache 1!11😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 one more time great thanks and admiration to you sincerely respectueuses friendlys ❤❤❤ (2023/01/10) so long ❤
Wonderful version of this wonderful song . Merle has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard .
I'll never forget that sound...I'll never stop listening to you ol boy
after watching the Country Music Awards last night it really made me stop and think where has country music gone and I guess just look up at the sky and that's where all the greats are
your so right the music now just doesnt sound the same,I cant put my finger on it but it sure is different.
Jim Lauderdale is good tonic.
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Most of them don't even sing nowadays.
They sing, just not like Merle.
My Dad, a Marine in Korean War, a Marine, he loved Merle! I was record changer as he sat on back porch singing these songs while my Mama cooked dinner, sat out there and sang with him! Miss those days!
Rhonda Boncutter , what a warm story ! Hats off .
Thanks, Dennis! Great memories! He has past, Mom, too! Memories all I have left!
Rhonda Boncutter , fond memories of my Dad also, Rhonda
Thanks, your father saved my country. Thanks, Merle made me happy.
Rhonda Boncutter - I love Merle too , my dad died while in the Army , he loved Merle, I was 6 when my dad died , I’m 54 now and been listening to Merle since I was 4 , I love Merle
Best Country singer songwriter of all time.
Legend love his music 🎶
This is the young Merle Haggard, back in the year 1978. I love the song, reminds me of what my beloved Papa Bear used to say, " Sing Me Back Home, before I die, home to Papa Bear , was the Nicola Valley. Now of course he is with our Lord.
A great country artist who showed the world an ex-convict can give back if only given a chance to do so.
Merle was 41 years old when his voice was so strong.
God bless you, Merle. The music world has lost one of its finest poets and singers.
This is what country music is not the pop.crap.they call.country tpday
Brings back a lot of memories good and sad I knew it by heart years back beautiful song
Saw Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins and the Sons of the Pioneers in concert twice. Outstanding concert by true legends of Country music
I remember going places with my dad when I was little he always listened to haggard and all the other ol country glad i got to grow up on it thanks to my parents
We love you and will miss you Merle! We'll have your music for generations to come! You might be gone but you'll always be with us!
Merle Haggard God Love Him. Mr Haggard Happy Birthday in heaven .still listen to you, huge Haggard fan.
What do you admire most about Merle
@@MarcosBryant-lj8zi just Love Merle Haggard
@@MarcosBryant-lj8zi he sang songs he lived
@@karenbritt8888 that’s cool,so what’s your favorite song from Merle
@@MarcosBryant-lj8zi Sing me back home
What a beautiful rendition of this song by one of the best singers ever!2018
A Great version of a great song...There are live renditions of this song that Merle really puts his all into.. this may have been one of them if the crowd wasn't so dead..I would have given anything to have been there..Awesome..
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This Is The Very Best I Ever Heard Merle Sing This Song. He Was Really "In To It" !!!!
Untouchable...majestic merle, shine on hag. 👌❤
Merle voce cantava muito e com certeza continua cantando a onde voce estiver
Hag will be forever missed and loved.I was able to see him perform live and was a highlight of my life.He was amazing and is singing for the lord now. God Bless you Merle Haggard.
I hope 'They Sang You Back Home ' Merle - Thank You for The Music - RIP
Merle will alway be missed!
The man.
This is one of my all time favorites.. I sing myself back home quite often.. thanks Merle
Yes, Merle was the best singer of all... beautiful voice and spirit. Love him.
Rest in peace Merle.
One of the best singer song writers EVER. With his passing an end of an era, '
Are the Good Times Really Over"?...starting to feel like it....
We could argue all day about who was the greatest country music singer. My personal favorites are Merle, and George In that order.
Love this concert 1978 his voice was so clear and crisp on every song greatest country music singer songwriter
Spent many a quarter on jukes listening to this great man!! Thanks Merle for all the memories.
Gone but will never be forgotten, one amazing singer, song writer. His life story is amazing to read. Your music will live on forever Merle. RIP
Great Singer & Song Writer "FIRST CLASS"
The best .
I love this Man's music, thank you Merle..R.I.P.
Brings a tear to the eye. So beautiful, and so sad.
The warden led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom
I stood up to say good-bye like all the rest
And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell
"Let my guitar playing friend do my request." (Let him)
[Chorus]
Sing me back home with a song I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Take me away and turn back the years
Sing Me Back Home before I die
[Verse 2]
I recall last Sunday morning a choir from off the street
Came in to sing a few old gospel songs
And I heard him tell the singers "There's a song my mama sang
Could I hear it once before you move along?"
God Bless the Okie from Muskogee & I have to believe somebody sang him back home today
Another one of the genuine outlaws is gone and modern music is only going to get worse without him. He will be dearly missed!!
"Real country" never more COUNTRY, than this! R.I.P. Merle!
I have watched this clip so many times--a real favorite of this particular song--RIP Merle and I hope you and the Possum are putting on concerts for the angels
One of my all time favorites...The Grateful Dead play a great live version of this song...I have always felt that the warden is "time" and we are the prisoner in life being led down that long hallway, just reaching out for our own special guitar playing friend to help us relive those great memories of our life...
Merle Haggard is a pure song writer....its why great bands like the Dead play it as a tribute to a genius
Check out Merle's version with Johnny Cash.
Robert Goodnow 1
Damn, this is good
YEA I HEAR YA MAN REALLY REALLY NICE WHEN U LISTEN U CAN FEEL IT HE WAS RIGHT UP THERE WITH ALL OF THEM 🤔😏😁👌🙏🙋♂️
HAY I JUST WANTED TO SAY DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND TYPE IN WAKE UP BY HAGGARD 😏👌🙏🙋♂️
you mean great
Sing the song Merle... You were the very best there was...R.I.P. and Thanks for Everything....!
nobody around like Merle, soul moving song man
Questa e la più bella canzo del nostro grande Merle! Riposa in pace!sempre nel nostro cuore! 🤩🤩😍😍😇😇😇💘♥️💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Thank you Merle for all your great Music R.I.P Merle Haggard
+Wayne's Channel. ♫ ♪ Tennessee ......... I could not better your great words .... R.I.P. Merle
Merle had experienced pain, & he knew how to write & sing what so many others needed to hear! From Nashville
Merle is the best, l love his music !
God bless & God keep country music's finest singer. R.I.P Merle.
The best of country may we have it again please