![]() ![]() The song was Haggard’s eighth country chart-topper but his first single ever to touch the pop chart, despite-or really, probably because of-its anti-urban ethos and vituperative spirit. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.In the closing weeks of 1969, Merle Haggard took “ Okie From Muskogee” to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart for four weeks-and, somewhat more surprisingly, No. 41 on the Hot 100, the closest he’d come to cracking the pop Top 40. ![]() Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die when all the bird are singing in the sky, Now that the spring is in the air. And every time that I was down you would always come around and get my feet back on the ground. You gave me love and helped me find the sun. But the wine and the song, like the seasons, all have gone. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. Goodbye, Papa, it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky, Now that the spring is in the air. ![]() Too much wine and too much song, wonder how I get along. Goodbye, Papa, please pray for me, I was the black sheep of the family. But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time. ![]() Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky, Now that the spring is in the air. Learned of love and ABC's, skinned our hearts and skinned our knees. We've known each other since we're nine or ten. ![]()
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