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Best Country Drinking Songs:
No. 18

'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!

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Martian? I thought he was born in California.

July 31 2009 at 1:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
arvid0823

Great songs, I especially like the Mavericks version.
Emmy Lou Harris' and Merle are pretty good too.

March 26 2009 at 3:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hi

he speaks martian language

February 13 2009 at 3:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hi

lol he's a martian

February 13 2009 at 3:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply