"This country needs to be honest," Haggard sings in "Hillary," the single he introduced during a cross-country tour this year. "Changes need to be large/Something like a big switch of gender/Let's put a woman in charge."
Thunderstruck fans of the man who wrote the anti-hippy anthem, "Okie from Muskogee," greeted the new song with cheers and jeers when he sang it at a Seattle concert in March. Media there reported some people left the auditorium wondering if Merle was pulling their leg.
He wasn't.
"I might be biting myself in the leg here," Haggard said in an interview last week with National Public Radio, acknowledging that there isn't a lot of overlap between his fan base and Clinton's.
who wudda thunk it?