My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Sing Me Back Home

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Two countdowns, one with country songs and one with the “Hot 100,” and on some days you just can’t get away from genre one or the other. While I wait for my new refrigerator to be delivered (because I just didn’t spend enough on the car ) I’ll give you another song that makes the list of all-time favorite songs to make the Billboard country charts. Sing Me Back Home - Merle Haggard Hopefully most of you know Merle Haggard’s name. If you do, you may also know that Haggard was an ex-con. He was doing time in San Quentin when Johnny Cash did a show to entertain the inmates there in 1960. It turned his life around. Like many country singers, Haggard wrote what he knew. This was based on the experience of seeing prisoners being taken to the Death Row holding area. I’ve watched documentaries about serial murderers and cold-blooded killers, and I’ll tell you flat out that I don’t have sympathy for them. This does remind us, however, that they were human once upon a time. Sing Me Back Home Written by Merle Haggard Recorded by Merle Haggard From Sing Me Back Home, 1967 Peak chart position: #1 Today’s rock song: “Seven Bridges Road” There’s a song my mama sang: