WOODY SEZ ~ “Every living song I’ve ever made up is a hard times song of protest.”

Did you play the NY Times Connections game on Sept. 30?

WOODY SEZ ~ "Life has got a habit on not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that you don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."

WOODY SEZ ~ "If you walk across my camera, I will flash the world your story"

WOODY SEZ ~

"Change the pen and change the ink
Change the way you talk and think
Change the tubes and change the tires
Change the things your heart desires
Change your makeup change your curl
Change the way of this changing world."

WOODY SEZ ~ "All of my words, if not well put, nor well taken, are well meant."

On February 23, 1940, Woody penned what would be his most well-known song, This Land Was Made For You and Me.

At the bottom of the lyric he noted, "All you can write is what you see". As an observational writer, Woody documented history, stories of hardship, racism, and injustice in his songs.

Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along
Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
It looks like it's a-dyin' and it's hardly been born

Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
All the things that I'm a-sayin' and a-many times more...

Bob Dylan penned "Song to Woody" on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1961, set to the tune of Woody's song "1913 Massacre".

"I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
Walkin' a road other men have gone down
I'm seein' your world of people and things
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings...

WOODY SEZ ~ "Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, this world is such a great and a funny place to me; Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor, and I ain't got no home in this world anymore."

WOODY SEZ ~ "Whatever you do, wherever you go, don't lose your grip on life and that means don't let any earthly calamity knock your dreamer and your hoping machine."

Woody Guthrie's songs Pastures of Plenty, Pretty Boy Floyd, I Ain’t Got No Home, Hard Travelin', Deportee, Oklahoma Hills, Union Maid, Jesus Christ, Do Re Mi, Roll On Columbia, Great Dust Storm and Vigilante Man are among the hundreds by Woody that have become staples in the canon of American music.

WOODY GUTHRIE was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well-oiled track. They've become the folk song standards of the nation, known and performed throughout the world. He wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime.

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