'The Bottle Let Me Down'--Merle Haggard (1966)
Cheers-worthy lines: "I've always had a bottle I could turn to / And lately I've been turnin' every day."
The Hag has had his share of troubles from turning to the bottle. Behind bars for a drunken attempted robbery in the late '50s, he was busted for brewing his own beer in jail!









Reader Comments(1 of 1)
hiat 2-13-2009
lol he's a martian
hiat 2-13-2009
he speaks martian language
arvid0823at 3-26-2009
Great songs, I especially like the Mavericks version.
Emmy Lou Harris' and Merle are pretty good too.
Cascadesat 7-31-2009
Martian? I thought he was born in California.