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Alabama 3 – Woody Guthrie
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Another psychopath in Iowa, loadin' up another round / While the NRA in Columbine hunt Marilyn Manson down / Powder in the Pentagon, cruel letters in the mail / Some KKK white
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Woody Guthrie – Car Song
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[Chorus] / Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm, brrrm b' brrrm / Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm, brrrm b' brrrm / Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm, brrrm b' brrrm / Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm brrrm / [
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Woody Guthrie – Lindbergh
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Mr. Charlie Lindbergh, he flew to old Berlin / Got him a big Iron Cross, and he flew right back again / To Washington, Washington / Mrs. Charlie Lindbergh, she come dressed in red
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Woody Guthrie – Tear the Fascists Down
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There's a great and a bloody fight / 'round this whole world tonight / And the battle, the bombs and shrapnel reign / Hitler told the world around he would tear our union down
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Leftover Salmon – Woody Guthrie
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[Verse] / Hey Woodie Guthrie I wish that you could see / How the highways have rolled by our doors / Internet highways, subways and skyways / But nobody's hitching no more / When
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Bob Dylan – Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
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This is a poem about Woody Guthrie, one of the greatest folk/country artists of all time, and an immense influence on Bob Dylan’s music. Dylan performed many Guthrie songs on the
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Woody Guthrie – Rye Whiskey
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Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I crave / If I don't get rye whiskey I'll go to my grave / Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry / If I don't get rye whiskey I surely
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Woody Guthrie – Stackolee (Stagger Lee)
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Stackolee was a bad man, everybody knows / Spent a hundred dollars for just one suit of clothes / He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee / Stackolee loaded cotton, weighed five
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Woody Guthrie – Red River Valley
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Well, sit by my side if you love me / Do not hasten to bid me ado / Just remember that Red River Valley / And the cowboy that loves you so true / Well, they tell me, my dear, that
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Woody Guthrie – Do Re Mi
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“Do Re Mi” is a folk song by American songwriter Woody Guthrie. The song deals with the experiences and reception of Dust Bowl migrants when they arrive in California. It is known
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Woody Guthrie – Tom Joad
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[Part 1] / Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen / There he got his parole / After four long years on a man killing charge / Tom Joad come a-walkin' down the road, poor boy
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Woody Guthrie – Vigilante Man
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In the early 20th century United States, the term “vigilante” was used to describe railroad bosses that threw hobos off of trains, hired thugs used to crush labor movements, and/or
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Woody Guthrie – Pretty Boy Floyd
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Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber. He operated in the Midwest and West South Central States, and his criminal
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Woody Guthrie – Jesus Christ (They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave)
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Jesus Christ was a man who traveled through the land / Hard working man and brave / He said to the rich, "Give your goods to the poor." / So they laid Jesus Christ in his grave
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Woody Guthrie – 21 Years
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I hear that train blow, babe / She'll be here on time / To take me to prison / To serve out my time / Look down that railroad / Far as you can see / Keep right on wavin' your
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Woody Guthrie – Stewball
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Stewball was a good horse / And he held a high head / And the mane on his foretop / Was fine as silk thread / I rode him in England / And I rode him in Spain / And I never did lose
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Woody Guthrie – Hobo's Lullaby
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Woody Guthrie was born in in Oklahoma in 1912. Things went bust there in 1931 with the Great Depression and Woody headed out, on his own, with a promise to send whatever money he
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Woody Guthrie – Crawdad Song
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You get a line, I'll get a pole, honey / You get a line, I'll get a pole, babe / You get a line, I'll get a pole / We'll go down to the crawdad hole / Honey, babe of mine / (Wooh
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Woody Guthrie – Ladies Auxiliary
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Oh, the Ladies' Auxiliary / It's a good auxiliary / The best auxiliary / That you ever did see / If you need an auxiliary / See the Ladies' Auxiliary / It's the Ladies' Auxiliary
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Woody Guthrie – Hard Traveling
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[Verse 1] / I've been havin' some hard travelin', I thought you knowed / I've been havin' some hard travelin', way down the road / I've been havin' some hard travelin', hard
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Woody Guthrie – Little Black Train
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There's a little black train a-coming / Coming down the track / You've got to ride that little black train / But it ain't a-gonna bring you back / You may be a bar-room gambler
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Woody Guthrie – Miss Pavlichenko
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Miss Pavilichenko's well known to fame; / Russia's your country, fighting is your game; / The whole world will love her for a long time to come / For more than three hundred nazis
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Woody Guthrie – Cumberland Gap
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Me and my wife and my wife's pap / We're all going down to Cumberland Gap / Me and my wife and my wife's pap / We're all going down to Cumberland Gap / Cumberland Gap, Cumberland
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Woody Guthrie – John Henry
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John Henry when he was a baby / Settin' on his mammy's knee / Picked up an hammer in his little right hand / Said "Hammer be the death of me me me / Hammer be the death of me
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Woody Guthrie – Chisholm Trail
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Come along boys and listen to my tale / Tell you of my trouble on the old Chisholm Trail / Come a ki yi yippee yippee yi yippee yay / Come a ki yi yippee yippee yay / Well, I
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Woody Guthrie – Blowin' Down This Road
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I'm blowin' down this old dusty road / I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road / I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord, Lord / An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way / I'm
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Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land
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This 20th century classic was covered by many artists, including the likes of Bob Dylan and even Bernie Sanders, but the original was written and sung by Woody Guthrie. Written in
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Woody Guthrie – Howdjadoo
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I stick out my little hand / To ev'ry woman, kid and man / And I shake it up and down, howjido, howjido / Yes, I shake it up and down, howjido / Howdy doozle doodle doozie / Howji
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Woody Guthrie – Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)
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Inspired by a plane crash that killed 28 at first unnamed Mexican migrant workers during World War II, Guthrie’s protest song has been subsequently covered by many others
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Bob Dylan – Song to Woody
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One of Dylan’s very first songs, “Song to Woody” celebrates his folk heroes, primarily Woody Guthrie. It borrows the tune from Guthrie’s 1913 Massacre.
Dylan would revisit Woody
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Woody Guthrie – Billy The Kid
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[Verse 1] / I'll tell you the story of Billy the Kid / And I'll tell of the things that this young outlaw did / Way out in the west when the country was young / When a gun was your
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Woody Guthrie – Little Darling (At My Window Sad and Lonely)
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...to their breast? / Who's a-gonna talk your future over / While I'm rambling in the west? / At my window sad and lonely / Often do I think of thee / And I wonder, little darling
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Woody Guthrie – Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
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Going Down The Road Feelin' Bad, also known as the Lonesome Road Blues, is an American traditional song, “a white blues of universal appeal and uncertain origin” (Ralph Rinzler
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Woody Guthrie – What Are We Waiting On?
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There's a great and a bloody fight 'round this whole world tonight / And the battle, the bombs and shrapnel reign / Hitler told the world around he would tear our union down / But
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Woody Guthrie – Waiting at the Gate
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Tell the miners' kids and wives / There's a blast in the number five / And the families I see standing at the gate / The inspector years ago said number five's a deadly hole / And
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Woody Guthrie – All You Fascists
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I’m gonna tell you fascists / You may be surprised / The people in this world / Are getting organized / You’re bound to lose / You fascists bound to lose / Race hatred cannot stop
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Woody Guthrie – The Flood and the Storm
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The year is nineteen and twenty, kind friends / And the great World's War we have won / Old Kaiser Bill, we've beat him once again / In the smoke of the cannon and the gun / Old
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Woody Guthrie – Take a Whiff on Me
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Take a whiff, take a whiff, take a whiff on me / Everybody take a whiff on me / Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me / Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me / I got a woman 6ft4 sleepin
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Woody Guthrie – Ludlow Massacre
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“Ludlow Massacre” by Woody Guthrie was written and released as a single in 1944. It’s written as a first person account of the event.
The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed in U.S
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Woody Guthrie – Red Wine
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Oh, pour me a drink of Italian red wine / Let me taste it and call back to mind / Once more in my thoughts, once more to my soul / This story as great, if not greater, than all
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Woody Guthrie – Froggie Went A-Courtin'
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Froggie went a-courtin' and he did ride, hey hey / Froggie went a-courtin' and he did ride, hey hey / Froggie went a-courtin' and he did ride / Sword and a pistol by his side, hey
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Woody Guthrie – Better World A-Comin'
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There's a better world that's a-coming / There's a better world that's a-coming / There's a better world that's a-coming / I'll tell you why why why / And don't you see see see
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Woody Guthrie – Rubber Dolly
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My momma told me / That she would buy me / A rubber dolly / If I'd be good / But don't you tell her / I've got a feller / She won't buy me / No rubber dolly / No rubber dolly / No
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