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Originally Posted by TheFlyingBomb
Hilarious.
GS, I always had the impression that "Okie" was more of a satire about country music's take on the counter-culture. I could be wrong about that, though.
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I believe that it was just Merle Haggard's take on the counter culture, which he found inferior to all representing his values. They didn't smoke marijuana, they got drunk on white lightn'. They didn't wear sissy beads, they still flew the flag proudly, their kids behaved well on campus and weren't occupying administration buildings and so forth. I surely did not take any of it as a satire on country values, to the contrary, it was a celebration of them while simultaneously scorning the counter culture.