OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST COUNTRY SONGS EVER WRITTEN AND SUNG.
It is a tongue in cheek song about a town in Oklahama.
ENJOY!
We
don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
We
don't take our trips on LSD
We
don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street;
Coz
we like livin' right, and bein' free.
We
don't make a party out of lovin';
But
we like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo;
We
don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like
the hippies out in San Francisco do
I'm
proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A
place where even squares can have a ball
We
still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And
white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all
Cowboy
boots are still in style for manly footwear;
Beads
and Roman sandals won't be seen.
Football's
still the roughest thing on campus,
And
the kids here still respect the college dean.
I'm
proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A
place where even squares can have a ball
We
still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And
white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.
In
Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
Okie from Muskogee is an album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1969.
The album won the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year in 1969. Haggard also won Single of the Year for "Okie from Muskogee" as well as Top Male Vocalist
In the 1930s in
California, the term Okie was used in contempt, to refer to very poor
immigrants from Oklahoma .
The "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over a million new displaced people; many headed to the farms in California's Central valley . The core group of Okies were descendants of Scotch Irish .
The "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over a million new displaced people; many headed to the farms in California's Central valley . The core group of Okies were descendants of Scotch Irish .
The term "Okie"
was used to disparage these poor, white, migrant workers and their families.
The term became well-known nationwide by John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of
Wrath.
Will Rogers, a famous
movie star with Oklahoma roots remarked jokingly that the Okies moving from
Oklahoma to California increased the average intelligence of both states.
Written by Haggard and
Roy Edward Burris (drummer for Haggard's backing band, The Strangers) during
the height of the Vietnam War, "Okie from Muskogee" grew from the two
trading one-liners about small-town life, where conservative values were the
norm and outsiders with ideals contrary to those ways were unwelcome.
Here, the
singer reflects on how proud he is to hail from Middle America, where its
residents were patriotic, and didn't smoke marijuana, take LSD, wear beads and
sandals, burn draft cards or challenge authority. A self-confessed 'square,' is confused by such
changes and with a chuckle comes to the conclusion that he and his ilk have the
right sort of life for themselves.
By November 15, it
reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, where it
remained for four weeks. 1970The song is played in the background in Platoon. The
song is referenced in the movies An Officer and a Gentleman
The Vietnam protests
were an inspiration on this song - Haggard was protesting the protesters.
Haggard was imprisoned several times in his younger days for various crimes.
During a 2010 interview with The Boot, he explained: "When I was in
prison, I knew what it was like to have freedom taken away. Freedom is
everything. During Vietnam, there
were all kinds of protests. These soldiers were giving up their freedom and
lives to make sure others could stay free. I wrote the song to support those
soldiers."
President Nixon wanted Johnny Cash to sing this song in White House and he refused.
Say again-- US soldiers fighting in Vietnam to keep America free?
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President Nixon wanted Johnny Cash to sing this song in White House and he refused.
Say again-- US soldiers fighting in Vietnam to keep America free?
Punch into google search THE GULF OF TONKIN LIE- VADAKAYIL
Pope Pius XII, Eugenio
Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958), was directly responsible for the American war
in Vietnam. He used opium drug trade money power to put a Vatican puppet and
staunch Roman Catholic president Ngo Dinh Diem, as president of Vietnam in
1955.
His brief was to persecute the Buddhists and convert them to
Christianity. Diem was instructed to give death penalty to communists in 1956 .
In the war America supported the
Catholic south . The result was 50000 American soldier causalities and 2
million Vietnamese exterminated--and the greatest rape of this planet by Agent
Orange-- ordered by JFK.
Pope Pius XII along with John Foster Dulles (
secretary of state for President Eisenhower ) -- both committed anti-communists
, were responsible for the start of the COLD WAR and so much human misery..
Pius XII was very much worried that the Chinese Christians would set up a
separate Chinese church ( like the Serb Orthodox church ), which did NOT care
for the Pope, and would warn all and sundry about this, often .
Here is a 7000 year old Vedic sanskrit chant-- grace and peace!
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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Just wanted you to know I appreciate your accurate analysis of American participation in the war in Vietnam.
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I chose this old post since I wanted this to be a personal and direct communication to you alone.
Requesting your time to read this message.
1. I take part in your silent revolution and I spread your message via Twitter and sometimes through FB and emails. My twitter account is @kali_darkenergy. I don't communicate often to you that I have done what you wanted your readers to do but I always do what u tell us to. In the last 2 weeks my twitter account got blocked for 4 times but that doesn't matter.
2. Your words have changed me a lot, shown me the truth and it helps me to become a selfless human to take a true spiritual journey.
3. It was tears of joy after reading one of your recent revelations. "Aum sound before and after a mantra opens quantum tunneling" what a revelation Captain! Ur best.
4. Thank you for recent revelations on bent pyramids, Machu Pichu, Varadharaja ETC. Would request you to write about the opposing forces devas too. Ur recent revelation saying that "when devas wanted indraprastha palace only maya danava could do it" but you had said before that right from Rishaba, Bharata, Ikshavaku all are Dhanavas. So it seems Devas were a branch of Danavas.
5. I am 35 and a man witha lovely family. I have now decided to finish my CA course which I had left half way through and joined employment long back. But I assure you that I will be a responsible accountant and try to bring value addition and not like the ones whom you consider as valueless. So while I prepare for exams I may not be able to participate 100% for which I request you to bare with me.
Thank you Captain, for all your efforts to put Bharatmatha in her place and allowing many of us to join hands with you in this fight. I pray to the mother field to give you strength and energy.
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