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That's right.

My name is Lance Ghost Merrick and I'm reporting barely alive in Hope, Alaska!

I farmer. I was born Farmer.

I was driving tractor when I was three.

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1963 Harlingen, Texas

That's right south Texas where the palm trees blow and we had a cotton farm.

And down on the farm we grew up tough!

Tough as nails give em hell.

And here is my best friend SPOT.

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But it wasn't long before I was dreaming of bigger and better things than being a farmer.

Is there anything that is better than farming?

How about being an astronaut?

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Or how about a cowboy?

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That's my daddy. He is a cowboy see his black boots?

And that is Smokey my other best friend. He loved peanut butter and jelly sandwishs. That was how I broke him and that when I became a cowboy!

I am a COWBOY but I farmer too!

And those my two sisters Shawn and Kesha. It been 50 years and we still close and help each other.

People On the farm help each other.

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What about cowboy don't you understand?

I guess it wasn't Willie that made

me want to be a cowboy.

It was my daddy.

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Smoky and I blazed the acres and acres of cotton fields back home.

There are BOOKS about me and Smokey but that is another chapter.

"Oh those old cotton fields back home."

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2008 and I farmer still.

Yeppers when I got older about 14 I was sent to a concentration camp in Kentucky. It was called Uncle Leo's farm.

He farmer too!

Lexington, Kentucky was 45 minutes south of the farm.

We worked from 4:20AM in the morning and did't hit the hay til 11:30PM at night. Usually after watching a ball game. Cincinnati Big Red Machine eating ice cream!

But the rest was work. Hard Labor. No Pay.

Then at age 14 I discovered THREE things that became the obsessions of my LIFE.

WHISKEY | WEED | WOMEN

Grandpa made whiskey in a still and I got a pint a week.
There was a tomatoe plant that did't grow tomatoes and it a weed. But you could smoke it.
Farm Girls
Farm Girls became the obsession of my life.

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Whether I am an astronaut or a cowboy ONE thing still is true.

I farmer.

Be the farmer like me!

BeTheFarmer.org

#OnlyFarmGirlsAllowed

Please follow me and I will teach you farmer.

I will show you all the reasons why being a farmer is better than anything in the world.

'cept farmgirls.

#BeTheFarmer

#OnlyFarmGirlsAllowed

And please check out my band website.

BiPolar420.com - It almost like Willie but not quite.