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Woody Guthrie Biography

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (/ˈɡʌθri/; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically. He wrote hundreds of political, folk, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works. His album of songs about the Dust Bowl period, Dust Bowl Ballads, is included on Mojo magazine's 100 Records That Changed The World. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia, Jay Farrar, Bob Weir, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Childers, Sammy Walker, Tom Paxton, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Brian Fallon, and Sixto Rodríguez have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence. He frequently performed with the slogan This machine kills fascists displayed on his guitar.

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Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

Fountain, Funny, Gun, Men, Pen, Rob

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

Already, He Man, Let, Let Me, Men, Told

Do Re Mi California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi

Believe, California, Garden, Paradise, See

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

Across, Cameras, Flash, Stories, Walk, World

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Freedom, Highway, Hippie, Land, Make, Nobody

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Chords, Ego, Play, Showing, Two

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

Dust, Edge, Light, Moon, Worked

You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.

Good, Song, Unless, Write, Writing

I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

Fighting, Lay, Like, Nobody, Peace, War

As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.

Endless, Hiking, Journey, Land, Lonesome, Valley

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

Democracy, Funny, Gun, Men, World

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

Bad, Good, Hate, Law, Men

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

Color, Pride, Sing, Song, Songs, Take

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Born, Down, Oklahoma, People, White

As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing. " But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

Forest, Islands, Journey, New York, Redwood, Said

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

Ifs, Learn, Steal, Stealing, Want

This land is your land, this land is my land

Land, Redwoods, Trespassing

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.

Bound, Crazy, Hate, Nothing, Slim, Song

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

Anyway, Fall, Falling, Helping, Machines, Note

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

Filled, Make, People, Slaves, Trying, World

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