The song The Way It Was In '51 is performed by Merle Haggard in the album named Down Every Road in the year 1996 .
Sixty-Six was still a narrow two-lane highway
Harry Truman was the man who ran the show
The bad Korean war was just beginning
And I was just three years too young to go
Country music hadn't gone to New York City yet
And a service man was proud of what he'd done
And Hank and Lefty crowded every jukebox
That's the way it was in '51
There's so much about the good old days I'd love to tell
And there's folks around I know, still remember well
Slow dancin' close together when a ballad played
'Cause a thing called, 'Rock and Roll' was yet to come
It was a big year for a drive-in rest'rant, Carhop
And that's the way it was in '51
There's so much about the good old days I'd love to tell
And there's folks around I know, still remember well
Slow dancin' close together when a ballad played
'Cause a thing called, 'Rock and Roll' was yet to come
A big year for a drive-in rest'rant, Carhop
And that's the way it was in '51
Hank and Lefty crowded every jukebox
Oh Lord, that's the way it was in '51
Merle Haggard - Down Every Road
- Skid Row
- Sing A Sad Song
- You Don't Even Try
- Sam Hill
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- Just Between The Two Of Us
- If I Had Left It Up To You
- I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
- Swinging Doors
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- High On A Hilltop
- I'll Look Over You
- The Fugitive
- House Of Memories
- All Of Me Belongs To You
- Mary's Mine
- Someone Told My Story
- Go Home
- Whatever Happened To Me
- Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
- I Threw Away The Rose
- Branded Man
- You Don't Have Very Far To Go
- Somewhere Between
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
- Seeing Eye Dog
- The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
- I Started Loving You Again
- Is This The Beginning Of The End?
- I'll Always Know
- Mama Tried
- In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
- Teach Me To Forget
- I'm Looking For My Mind
- The Day The Rains Came
- California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)
- I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
- I'm Bringin' Home Good News
- I Can't Hold Myself In Line
- It Meant Goodbye To Me When You Said Hello To Him
- Hungry Eyes
- Waitin' For A Train
- Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Out Of Me)
- California Cottonfields
- White Line Fever
- Workin' Man Blues
- Okie From Muskogee
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Huntsville
- Irma Jackson
- The Fightin' Side Of Me
- I'll Be A Hero (When I Strike)
- Right Or Wrong
- Trouble In Mind
- Stay A Little Longer
- The Farmer's Daughter
- Tulare Dust
- Carolyn
- Someday We'll Look Back
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- Grandma Harp
- It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
- I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me
- The Emptiest Arms In The World
- Everybody's Had The Blues
- Things Aren't Funny Anymore
- Honky Tonk Night Time Man
- Holding Things Together
- Here In Frisco
- Kentucky Gambler
- Always Wanting You
- Living With The Shades Pulled Down
- Running Kind
- It's All In The Movies
- The Way It Was In '51
- I Never Go Around Mirrors
- What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana
- If We're Not Back In Love By Monday
- Ramblin' Fever
- It's Been A Great Afternoon
- Misery And Gin
- Leonard
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
- Rainbow Stew
- Big City
- Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)
- You Take Me For Granted
- Pancho And Lefty
- That's The Way Love Goes
- Someday When Things Are Good
- Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
- Kern River
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- In My Next Life
- Silver Wings
- If We Make It Through December
- Red Bandana
- Footlights
- My Own Kind Of Hat
- Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
- Kern River
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- In My Next Life