Which prison does Merle Haggard sing about on the album "Mama Tried"?!
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San Quinten was where he was incarcirated, but his "prison" was his own insecurity
Merle Haggard served time in San Quentine at the age of 20.
I was there he saw Johnny Cash and realized that the path to straighten out is life was through his music.
The lyrics to "Mama Tried" never mention a specific prison. It just says, "I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole." No prison is named. Haggard served time in San Quentin (he was paroled, and later pardoned by then-governor Ronald Reagan); however, even then, he was not "doing life without parole," but 10 years for attempted robbery.
san quentin