| Woody Guthrie – Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good to Know You) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| He rewrote this song with different lyrics later about leaving for World War II and all the people that came to say goodbye to him. In my opinion it's not nearly as good as his Dust Bowl Ballad version. The Weavers covered the original version, but who could argue that Woody's is always the best version? | |
| Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land (1944 Asch Recording) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Woody actually had another verse that read: One bright sunny morning, In the shadow of the steeple, By the Relief Office, I saw my people, As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if [This land was made for you and me] He actually says, "God blessed America for me" instead of "This land...etc", but he changed it later. It was originally written in response to his hatred for the ever-popular "God Bless America" written by Irving Berlin and cranked out on the radio way too often. Woody knew that God was blessing America the way he and millions of others saw it. It was a socialist response to a passive song. |
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