Haggard, Merle - If You Hated Me Lyrics

First time I’ve heard this one, love it.

My favorite hag song love it

You must have been mad at me
when you said I'm in love with you
And you made me believe in you
and that you wanted me

If you really had love in mind
and it hurting me all this time
I wonder what you would do if you hated me

If love causes this much pain
and revenge really played no part
And you're about to break my heart
when you're through with me

You must have been mad at me
when you said I'm in love with you
And I wonder what you would do if you hated me
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You must have been mad at me
when you said I'm in love with you
I wonder what you would do if you hated me.....

Miss you Merleyou were and still my legand.this is one of my favorite song.Got me through the bad and lonely times of my life.i truely loce you Merle!!

This is a great song!! Merle was one of the greatest singers EVER in any genre of music.

Earlier version or warped vocal?

My favorite singer of all time!

Spoken from the heart. There are times you are talking about my life. R.I.P. you’ll be forgotten

Country legend is right I wish he would of made more songs.....a man's man like my dad......sad to see em get old .real sad love you pop

If you don't like Merle Haggard, you can kiss my ASS.

I know you hate how it is down here on this earth and probably writing a song about it... sing it Merle Haggard ..Rest in Heaven and I'll see you over there ...

I have this album, "Going Where The Lonely Goes". One of his best albums ever. You were the King of Country Music and always will be. Love you Merle Haggard and Rest in Peace.

Man I don't care for some country music. But this is pure white soul. r.i.p. Merle. Whatever it is....... you had it.

Thank you for posting

LOVE THIS MAN !!!!

Long live his great music ♥ beautiful song,,,thanks for sharing Mr music :-))

R. I. P. Merle Haggard, now you can be writing on new songs in Heaven that will be a much better songs you've ever wrote here on earth. Can't wait to get into heaven so I can hear your new materials. Love you Merle Haggard, in my eye's you were and only the best singer of all time.

He writes about life stories. Most of us can relate to all of them. RIP Merle we miss you. Talk to my husband up there.

Merle is the BEST

Are you related to Frank Guillot??

thanks Merle for makin the best songs ever!! I really needed this one lately 💔

Many tough days in life! Play Haggard things all ways seem to get better! Now I listen to wind! Thanks Merle.

Wonderful singer ,wish there were more like him, who's gonna fill his shoes.? No one ,that's who

RIP Merle love this song.Thanks for posting.

good point merle! you can really speak for the heart.

R.I.P. You are a "Country Legend"

<3 <3 Love Hag

LOVE me some daily Haggard, Love Merle Haggard music since he started! <3

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

Never heard this B4 but it is classic Merle.

Very good song!

Love ya Merle!

They quit makin music years ago

Kinda sad ain't it? At least we have the albums, tapes & cd's or whatever to enjoy.

"If you hated me" you couldn't hurt me more. My heart is broken.

yea its on thats the way love goes

Does anyone know which cd this is on? I love this song! Thanks for posting it!

who are the 2 MENTAL GIANTS who did a thumbs down >?

This should have been a number 1 hit IMHO

awesome...on vinyl yet..cool.

Pure HAG !!!!!!! One of the all time greats!

My daddy would dance with me to this song when I was little. I love it still.

Never heard this one before - thanks for uploading!

I love this.I'm a big Hag fan,but never heard this one.

Shasta...what beautiful story..sorry your friend died so suddenly, She did have her dream come true. Janelle in Houston

this kids is how it pose to sound, this is hoe it's done. please don't try this at home, cause this is a trained professional. especially if-n ya ain't got no talent, PLEASE...... COA ...

So sad your friend, Faye didn't make it, but at least one of her dreams did come true. I too am glad she got to see and hear Merle. He does put on good performances. They sound just like his records except when he might clown around occasionally

Bless you Merle...you are the best.... :)

Love is a pain if you don't choose wisely but the greatest if you do ...love all of Merle's songs and he sings from the heart.

wishing Merle well.lovley song,i had not heard it.much thanks for uploading. from ireland

Yeah! Mighty Merle is right! What a great country artist he is! Janelle in Houston

nobody better....

They dont call him mighty Merle for nothing.

@shasta0113 ... thanks very much for that wonderful story !

excellent old song from one of the best. thanks for the upload.. The Hag is the greatest....