Let Me Tell You About a Song

Let Me Tell You About a Song is an album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1972. It reached #7 on the Billboard Country album chart and #166 on the Pop album chart. The lead-off singles were "Grandma Harp" and "Daddy Frank (Guitar Man)" — both reached #1.

Let Me Tell You About a Song was reissued along with Hag on CD by Beat Goes On Records in 2002.^[3]

Track listing

All songs by Merle Haggard unless otherwise noted.

1. "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" – 3:23
2. "They're Tearin' the Labor Camps Down" – 3:33
3. "Man Who Picked the Wildwood Flower" (Tommy Collins) – 3:26
4. "Recitation" The Proudest Fiddle in the World (A Maiden's Prayer)" (Bob Wills) – 2:34
5. "Bill Woods from Bakersfield" (Red Simpson) – 3:15
6. "Old Doc Brown" (Red Foley) – 3:26
7. "Grandma Harp" – 3:11
8. "Turnin' Off a Memory" – 2:48
9. "Irma Jackson" – 2:56
10. "Funeral" (Collins) – 3:18
11. "Bring It on Down to My House, Honey" (Wills) – 2:49

Personnel

• Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar
• Roy Nichols – guitar, harmonica
• Bobby Wayne – guitar
• Tommy Collins – guitar
• Norman Hamlet – pedal steel guitar, dobro
• Dennis Hromek – bass
• Biff Adam – drums
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle
• Billy Liebert – piano
• Glen D. Hardin – piano

Chart positions

References