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Woody Guthrie – 1913 Massacre
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“1913 Massacre” by Woody Guthrie appears on his 1941 album, Struggle.
This is a social protest song, sung as a third person account of the deaths of copper miners and their
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Arlo Guthrie – 1913 Massacre
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Take a trip with me to 1913 / To Calumet, Michigan in the copper country / I'll take you to a place called Italian Hall / Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball
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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 – 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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Country Genius – Folk Songs From Around the World
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Folk music has a very, very long history, and some of these songs rank with the most loved in the world. Folk music has helped historians under-stand the way people lived, but
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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 – 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 – Get Along Little Doggies
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Oh, little dogies / It's your misfortune and none of my own / Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little dogies / You know that Wyoming will be your new home / That cattle trail's rough and
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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 – 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 – Lost John
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Gonna tell you the story / About old Lost John / Lost John was a boy that got loose / From a chain gang down in Louisiana / About sixteen bloodhound, took in after him / Sheriffs
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Woody Guthrie – Union Maid (Excerpt)
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There once was a union maid, she never was afraid / Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid / She went to the union hall when a meeting it
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Woody Guthrie – Ship in the Sky
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Well, a curly-headed girl with a bright shining smile / Heard the roar of a plane as it sailed through the sky / To her playmates she said, with a bright twinkling eye / My Daddy
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Woody Guthrie – Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
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In bed with my woman, just singin' the blues / Heard the radio tellin' the news: / That the big Red Army took a hundred towns / And Allies droppin' them two-ton bombs / Started
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Woody Guthrie – Mean Talking Blues
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I'm the meanest man that ever had a brain / All I scatter is aches and pains / I'm carbolic acid, and a poison face / And I stand flat-footed in favor of crime and disgrace / If I
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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 – 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 – Union Burying Ground
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I see they're lowering a right new coffin / I see they're letting down a right new coffin / Way over in that Union Burying Ground / And the new dirt's falling on a right new coffin
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Woody Guthrie – The Many and the Few
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My name is King Cyrus, my order I give / You Jews can go back to your home / To build your holy temple again / In the land of Palestine / We've sung and danced o'er the hot rocky
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Woody Guthrie – Hanukkah Dance
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Tippy tap toe! Happy Hanukah! / ‘Round you go! My little latke! / On your toes! Happy Hanuka! / And around and around you go! / Clap your hands! Happy Hanuka! / Clap clap hands! My
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Woody Guthrie – Miner's Song
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Dig and a dig 'n' did a dig / Dig my life away / Precious metal is hard to find / Precious metal is hard to find / Down in the hole and down in the mine / And I dig my life away
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Genius Lists – Songs of Protest and Politics
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Political and protest songs have a long history in music, and some of them are great music as well as political commentary or plea for social change.
This list covers all music
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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 – Buffalo Skinners
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Come all you jolly skinners, and listen to my song / There are not many verses, it will not detain you long: / It's concerning some young fellows who did agree to go / And spend
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Woody Guthrie – When the Yanks Go Marching In
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[Chorus] / Oh, when the Yanks (when the Yanks) / Go marching in (go marching in) / When the Yanks go marching in / Boys, I want to be in that number / When the Yanks go marching in
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott – Talking Sailor Blues
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[Verse] / In bed with my woman, just a singing the blues / And I heard the radio a telling the news / Said, the big Red army took a hundred towns / And the allies dropping them two
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott – So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)
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[Verse 1] / I've sung this song, but I'll sing it again / Of the people I've met and the places I've seen / Of some of the troubles that bothered my mind / And a lot of good people
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Arlo Guthrie – The City of New Orleans
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Steve Goodman’s 1971 song, covered by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Judy Collins, Chet Atkins, John Denver and others.
The song describe a trip that Steve Goodman and his wife took
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott – Talking Columbia Blues
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[Verse] / I was down 'long the river, just setting on a rock / Looking at the boats in Bonneville Lock / And the gate swings open and the boat sails in / Toots her whistle, she's
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott – Hard Travelling
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[Verse] / I've been having some hard traveling, I thought you know / I've been hitting some hard traveling way down the road / I've been having some hard traveling, hard rambling
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott – Tom Joad
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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 walking down the road, poor boy / Tom Joad
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