If I Could Only Fly

If I Could Only Fly
Studio album by Merle Haggard
Released	October 10, 2000
Genre	Country
Length	35:45
Label	ANTI-/Epitaph
Merle Haggard chronology
1996 (1996) If I Could Only Fly (2000) Roots, Volume 1 (2001)

Professional ratings
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Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	(A-) link
Pitchfork Media	(7.6 of 10) link

If I Could Only Fly is an album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 2000. It reached Number 26 on the Billboard Country album chart.^[1]

Track listing [edit]

All songs by Merle Haggard unless otherwise noted.

1. "Wishing All These Old Things Were New" – 3:20
2. "Honky Tonky Mama" (Haggard, Traditional) – 3:07
3. "Turn to Me" – 3:10
4. "If I Could Only Fly" (Blaze Foley) – 4:59
5. "Crazy Moon" (Haggard, Max Barnes) – 2:07
6. "Bareback" – 2:12
7. "(Think About A) Lullaby" (Haggard, Theresa Lane Haggard) – 2:24
8. "I'm Still Your Daddy" – 2:54
9. "Proud to Be Your Old Man" (Haggard, Abe Manuel, Jr.) – 2:26
10. "Leavin's Getting Harder" – 2:10
11. "Thanks to Uncle John" – 2:43
12. "Listening (To the Wind)" – 4:10

Personnel [edit]

• Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar
• Biff Adams – drums
• Eddie Curtis – bass
• Floyd Domino – piano
• Norm Hamlet – steel guitar
• Abe Manuel, Jr. – guitar, fiddle, mandolin, percussion, piano, accordion, harp, harmony vocals
• Joe Manuel – guitar
• Randy Mason – guitar
• Oleg Schramm – piano
• Redd Volkaert – guitar
• Don Markham – saxophone, harmony vocals

Production notes:

• Lou Bradley – engineer, mixing
• Jesse Fischer – art direction, design
• Johnny Whiteside – liner notes

Chart performance [edit]

References [edit]