| The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is the first time I have ever thought everyone but me has missed the forest for the trees. This song is clearly a biographical song about the fate of the father of Americana music Woody Guthrie. Woody's hands shook from his disease and he entered Brooklyn State Hospital never to come out again. He was a hero to Bob Dylan, I am sure Jay Burnett, and every folkie on the planet. Bob Dylan's song/poem Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie tells a lot of it, as does his book Chronicles volume one. Yes, it is a general song of regret and family failure and sickness and despair, but it is specific to Woody Guthrie's story... "Brooklyn (state hospital) let me in..." |
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