Merle Haggard Set List - Atlanta, Georgia, 26 June 2008

At the Merle Haggard concert last week, I think I was the only person in the whole place with a pen and pad in hand, trying to write down each song title. But nobody noticed, as we were all having too good a time to care.

I've listed song titles except for places where I'm not familiar with the tune; for those songs I didn't know, I've just listed a line and put in in italics. If you happen to know these titles, please let me know, and I'll post that instead.

The show was AWESOME: 90 solid minutes of music, with very little of the usual onstage pitter-patter. I guess when you're Merle Haggard, you don't have to talk very much in between songs. In any case, I hope to see Merle in concert again one day, and I'll soon be buying my tickets to see Loretta Lynn when she comes to Atlanta in August.

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• "How did you find me here?"
• "That's the Way Love Goes"
• "Big City"
• "Rainbow Stew"
• "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink"
• "Silver Wings"
• "My heart has settled back to earth"
• "White Line Fever"
• "Heaven was a drink of wine" (about a Rorschach test & conversation w/ shrink)
• "Runaway Mama"
• "Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star"
• "Make [something] go away" (mentions taxpayers)
• "Love, always love ... love's always pretty" (possibly a new song?)
• "If I Could Only Fly"
• "30 Again"
• "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)"
• "The Fightin' Side of Me"
• "Keep on livin' the way I do"
• "Ramblin' Fever"