Half a Man While it remained on "Billboard's" chart for five weeks, it spent twelve weeks on "Cashbox's" country singles chart, and peaked at number twenty. Merle Haggard covered the song in his 1982 release "Going Where the Lonely Go". Nelson recorded again the track in a duet with George Jones for his 1985 duet album "Half Nelson". Half a Man "Half a Man" is a song written by country music singer Willie Nelson. The song was released as the A-side of the single for his second Liberty Records album, "Here's Willie Nelson". Despite it received mixed airplay for its content, the song
A Class Divided identifying collars (Ms. Elliott employed them to easily identify the group being discriminated against) as well as that of elation and superiority when they shed the collars. The now-adults agree, as they had learned after the 1970 experiment, that racism and prejudice are wrong, and that the life-affecting lesson should be experienced by other children, teachers, and adults in the present day as a form of understanding. "A Class Divided" confirms that Ms. Elliott has continued her "blue eyes/brown eyes" experiment in the present day, though there has been little outward reaction from parents or school authorities in Riceville. "A