Mama Tried is Merle Haggard's 7th studio album, released on Capitol Records in 1968. The self-penned title track is one of Haggard's most enduring songs and spent 4 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot County Singles chart.

The album cover is one of country music's most iconic, showing Haggarrd dressed in a prison uniform, sadly strumming a guitar.

Tracklist:

1. Mama Tried
2. Green, Green Grass of Home
3. Little Ole Wine Drinker Me
4. In the Good Old Days
5. I Could Have Gone Right
6. I'll Always Know
7. The Sunny Side of My Life
8. Teach Me to Forget
9. Folsom Prison Blues
10. Run 'Em Off
11. You'll Never Love Me Now
12. Too Many Bridges to Cross Over