“The Fightin’ Side of Me“ is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in January 1970 as the first single and title track from the album The Fightin’ Side of Me. The song became one of the most famous of his career.
In reference to his own 2002 song, “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American),“ Toby Keith once called this song “the original Angry American song.“
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Like “Okie from Muskogee,“ “The Fightin’ Side of Me“ catered to the conservative working-man’s values and politics; Bill Janovitz of Allmusic called the song “patriotic (if not outrightly jingoistic).“[1]
Here, the singer fills the role of a man frustrated with people deriding the country, particularly those who are “harpin’ on the wars we fight“ and “runnin’ down my countrymen,“ a reference to the then-ongoing Vietnam War.[2
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