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Colder Than A February Morn

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This week at Glyn’s Mixed Mixed Music Bag 2025,
Week #7, he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Here’s my featured February artist and his song.

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Music in the country was so enjoyable earlier this month, I decided to return this week for another visit.

Merle Haggard – the “Poet of the Common Man” – is widely considered one of the most important singer-songwriters in the history of Country Music. During a career that lasted from the 1960s until his death in 2016, he recorded more than 70 albums and had more than 30 #1 singles.

Many of Haggard’s songs were drawn from his own hardscrabble life during the Great Depression as an Okie in Bakersfield, California. Following his father’s death when Merle was nine, his mother encouraged his interest in music, hoping it would keep him out of trouble. It didn’t. He was constantly arrested for truancy and other offenses – and just as constantly escaping from juvenile detention centers. Eventually his crimes landed him in San Quentin for two and a half years.

After his parole, Haggard returned to Bakersfield and joined Buck Owens’ band, performing in the local honky-tonks at night and digging ditches by day. His own solo career took off when he turned to themes reflecting his own experiences: reckless younger years, being poor, doing time, chasing and loving women. Haggard was still performing as he neared age 80; along the way, he always made sure to acknowledge the deep legacy of country artists who had influenced him.

Haggard’s “Ever-Changing Woman”, a track from his Back to the Barrooms album, was released in 1980. It still sounds as fresh as any song being written today and it’s pure poetry.

This is “Ever-Changing Woman” by Merle Haggard

LYRICS

She can sparkle like the moonlight on the river
At times her words can cut you like a knife
She’s got a way of bein’ tough and tender
But she’ll always be the highlight of my life

Sometimes she’s hotter than the thirty first of August
And colder than a February morn
But Heaven knows I’m always more than willin’
To hold that ever changing woman in my arms

There’s days she almost loves me down to nothin’
And turns around and hates my very soul
So I always wear a T-shirt and a jacket
Just in case that woman’s runnin’ hot to cold

Sometimes she’s hotter than the thirty-first of August
Then colder than a February morn
But Heaven knows I’m always more than willin’
To hold that ever changing woman in my arms

Sometimes she’s hotter than the thirty-first of August
Then colder than a February morn
But Heaven knows I’m always more than willin’
To hold that ever changing woman in my arms

I’ve got that ever changing woman in my arms
I love that ever changing woman in my arms

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Kirby/Putman Jr.
Ever‐Changing Woman lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Mixed Music Bag 2025 – February rap

Big thanks to Glyn Wilton for hosting Mixed Music Bag each week. Please be sure to follow the link and check out Glyn’s site.

Thanks for joining me today and spinning some tunes.

And that’s all she wrote. See you on the flip side. 😎

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