rule 34

get up off our knees.

This machine kills fascists. I have the utmost respect for this man and always will.

Forget your George Washingtons and Ronald Reagans and Abraham Lincolns. Woody Guthrie was a truly great man/

I can not think of any singer TODAY that comes close to him in honesty of the music he makes.

Although he doesn't sing much these days due to age, let us not forget another of the true U.S. heroes of the 20th Century, Pete Seeger. The man has principles.

In addition to being a patriot, not the faux types with flags in their lapels and dumb grins on their shiny faces and thousand dollar suits and red ties and well-coiffed hair, Pete Seeger began the campaign to clean up the Hudson River. How many of us can claim to have accomplished such an undertaking?

Amidst all the ruin ~ there really is ~ still ~ the music of life.

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35. Live simple
The current economic system almost demands that we buy a lot things we don't need to support it .And for many that means spending money they don't have, which means going into debt.
How about we think a little more about not doing that.. If the system wants us to support it, then it needs to pay us a wage in which we can do it, without going into to much debt.
Better wages for all, is something Woody would have been all for!

One, at least, of whom Oklahoma should feel very proud.

Look up James McMurtry on you tube
" We Can't Make It Here Anymore"

Perhaps the event I admire Woody for most is one that happened during WW2 that a lot of people never heard about. Brownie McGhee recounted it in an interview about 40 years later:

“One time in the 1940s we played a Union party in Baltimore with Woody. At the end of the night, the people invited Woody to come and sit with them and have something to eat. Me and Sonny [Terry] were welcome to sit in the corner, but we were not invited to sit at the table with Woody.

Woody went crazy. He started hollering, ‘Didn’t you see me standing up there between those two guys all night long singing ‘Union Forever’? You mean to tell me that they can’t sit at this table with us? They gotta eat like two dogs in the corner? You want to talk about fascism? The fight against fascism starts right here!’

With that he started whipping tables over and throwing food. There were bottles breaking and glass flying. Me and Sonny were terrified. Sonny couldn’t see and I couldn’t run. We just held on until the storm was over. That was Woody."

His daughter, Nora is keepin the legacy alive.

From Nora Guthrie:

"Not the End. Just Resting. Give Me Time.
I'll Hit 'Em Again. Your Time Now." - Woody Guthrie

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/norasnews/nn20111228.htm

Nice song by Vince Herman

Hey woody Guthrie I wish you could see the highways that are rolling by the door
There's Internet highways and subways and skyways but nobody's hitching no more
When you were ramblin, hard times abounded with the miners and migrants of old
You walked the line, you spoke your mind, Telling stories that need to be told

Hey woody Guthrie where are you
We could sure use you once more
Hey woody Guthrie where are you 
The big dogs are back at the door

There's a whole generation thats got no sensation of feeling like a part of it all
Theres no sense of the land and the advertising man has got brand new logos for all
There can be no denying the farm fields are dying out here on suburbia's door
It's taking our soul, we're losing control woody we need you once more

Hey woody Guthrie where are you
We could sure use you once more
Hey woody Guthrie where are you 
The big dogs are back at the door

http://ia700404.us.archive.org/2/items/vh2009-01-17.flac/vh2009-01-17d1t14_vbr.mp3

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happy new year, people - the best to you all!

Let this be the year we begin to make Woody's better dreams come true.

First song I remember my mother singing to me was a Guthrie song, Oklahoma Hills, still sing it at gigs! He is the benchmark for standing against what's wrong!

Song To Woody

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

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

Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
All the things that I’m a-sayin’ an’ a-many times more
I’m a-singin’ you the song, but I can’t sing enough
’Cause there’s not many men that done the things that you’ve done

Here’s to Cisco an’ Sonny an’ Leadbelly too
An’ to all the good people that traveled with you
Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind

I’m a-leavin’ tomorrow, but I could leave today
Somewhere down the road someday
The very last thing that I’d want to do
Is to say I’ve been hittin’ some hard travelin’ too..... by Bob Dylan

The world and especially the Corporate States of America could sure use another Woody, Pete or Phil right about now....

I had a really wet First Night, with one extra pair of socks on me. I changed events after the first hour and my feet got wet, which was fine because my second pair of socks was dry. But, every hour after that was wring out the old, wring in the new.

Life was simpler then, not that we couldn't use and desperately need a hero like him now.....