Merle Haggard - Are The Good Times Really Over

BY TONY DIGIROLAMO- YOU KNOW THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN' AND THE ANSWERS ARE STILL BLOWIN' IN THE WIND BUT MERLE HAGGARD'S 'ARE THE GOOD TIMES REALLY OVER' IS THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR!

Sometimes we need some entertainment to to get a message so clear and so bold.

Merle Haggard's song Are the Good Times Really Over is a question for us all.

Taking a moment here to sit back and reflect on the nation, our flag, and what it all really means.

Here he is Merle Haggard and the Norman Rockwell gallery of American life: VIDEO ON YOUTUBE: Merle Haggard -- Are The Good Times Really Over


Take a look at the richness of the lyric and the nostalgia that puts pictures in your mind that will make you long for what is missing today.

I wish a buck was still silver.
It was back when the country was strong.
Back before Elvis; before the Vietnam war came along.
Before The Beatles and "Yesterday",
When a man could still work, and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.
Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
Could still last ten years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

I wish coke was still cola,
And a joint was a bad place to be.
And it was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV.
Before microwave ovens,
When a girl could still cook and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.
Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
Could still last ten years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Stop rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell.
Stand up for the Flag and let's all ring the Liberty bell.
Let's make a Ford and a Chevy,
Still last ten years, like they should.
The best of the free life is still yet to come,
The good times ain't over for good.

So there it is America ... It ain't over till it's over!