These roots" Haggard is referring to are loose and slippery; some of them are stylistic and musical roots, hence Jimmie Rodgers' Delta Blues" and Gamblin' Polka Dot Blues" as well as Lefty Frizzell's I Never Go Around Mirrors, while others seem episodically biographical, such as Dave Kirby's Walk on the Outside, Norm Hamlet's The Waltz You Saved for Me, and the mythical but symbolic What