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Woodie Guthrie's New Years Resolution List, 1942
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Posted on 12/31/2013 12:52:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I had a Great Uncle through marriage who grew up with Woody and was the same age.
I recall someone asking him about Woody and what kind of guy he was.
He thought for a few seconds and then said: “He was just plain sorry”.
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posted on
12/31/2013 2:55:37 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: elcid1970
Until Hitler broke his nonagression pact with Stalin & invaded the USSR in June 1941, Guthrie was a good little commie like all the others who chanted The Yanks Are Not Coming! & preached strict isolationism.True, but incomplete. Up to August 1939 commies around the world preached anti-fascism.
Hitler and Stalin signed their pact and commies abruptly switched their POV, only to switch back less than two years later.
To: Fiji Hill
Yeah, and if I had a hammer, Peter, Paul, and Mary would have been in the morgue.
I’ll give Woody a bit of a pass, without him there would have been no “The Ballad of Ruben Clamzo and His Strange Daughter in the Key of A”.
To: Fiji Hill
Amen, brother. When the World’s on Fire. A Pentecostal song arranged by AP Carter with Maybelle Carter on guitar.
Guthrie openly said he used Carter Family “chuch house licks” in his songs.
May belle Carter was the genius of guitar upon whose shouder’s Guthrie stood. AP Carter was a genius at arrangement and lyrics.
I like Guthrie’s music but after discovering the Carter Family came to a different understanding of it.
Guthrie was leftist and wrote worker’s polemic.
But interestingly, at that time American values were still so entrenched that any of hs songs were as much about Ameican individualism as the worker’s struggle.
He also sang songs about fighting for your land as long as there are bullets in your guns.
To: elcid1970; Tax-chick
Is there anyone here with the screen name “Counter-revolutionary cad”?
To: Mrs. Don-o
I'm trying # 26
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posted on
12/31/2013 3:35:22 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
To: Mrs. Don-o
19. Keep hoping machine runningGuthrie wrote a song called "hoping machine" bet never put it to music. Super group New Multitudes (Jim James, Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, and Anders Parker) do a good job of putting it to music along with other stuff Guthrie wrote. You can look them up on youtube. happy new year!
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posted on
12/31/2013 3:37:10 PM PST
by
lwd
To: Mrs. Don-o
Jack Hammer’s One and Only New Year’s Resolution - 2014: Never, ever waste a drop of Scotch.
To: Mrs. Don-o
To: left that other site
Sorry. I even googled it. Did read far enough.
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posted on
12/31/2013 4:21:15 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
No problem!
Both were Great! :-) Happy new Year!
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posted on
12/31/2013 4:32:16 PM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: omega4412
Not that I’ve noticed. When I was a little girl, I thought it was “counter-revolutionary cats.”
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posted on
12/31/2013 5:28:26 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
To: Gay State Conservative
The ONLY people who used the word “fascists” in the 50’s/60’s were Communists.
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posted on
12/31/2013 5:34:07 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: elcid1970
I'm astonished at the not-Godpleasing malice of this., We are not permitted to say anyone is definitively in hell --- not Judas Iscariot, not even Hitler or Stalin, and not Woody Guthrie.
There is a very good reason why the Church will canonize, but will not demonize.
Note well, I am not saying that one cannot judge ideologies as good or evil, words as true or false, actions as right or wrong. But the souls of men and the extent of the Divine Wisdom are beyond your purview, and mine.
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posted on
12/31/2013 5:48:20 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
To: minnesota_bound
I noticed that, too. It takes attention to detail.
Happy New Year to you, minnesota_bound!
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posted on
12/31/2013 6:06:50 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
To: TurboZamboni
Uh... just.... what... are they doing?
I've heard "the fur was flying." But the hair?
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posted on
12/31/2013 6:10:09 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
See post 20. She caught my Kingston Trio line.
True, no one on Earth can say who’s in Hell, although proofs can be gathered that someone’s in Heaven.
BTW, the last line of that K.T. ballad was, “If you want to be a Bolshevik, you’ll have to go to Hell.”
Any doubts as to where J.V. Stalin is, now?
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posted on
12/31/2013 6:17:10 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: omega4412
Counter-revolutionary cad?
Sure wish I’d thought of it!
;^)
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posted on
12/31/2013 6:19:06 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: ifinnegan
Guthrie was leftist and wrote workers polemic. Leftism now is about the un-employed and gov-employed no'bility taking wealth and power from the workers. Conservatism is about the worker's struggle. Arguably Guthrie was a conservative. Workers of the world unite!
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posted on
12/31/2013 6:21:56 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: lwd
Hoping Machine
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Jay Farrar
Dont let anything knock your props out from under you
Always keep your mind clear, let your plans come out of mistakes
These are the plans and nothing can tear down
Made out of things that have already been torn down
Whatever you do, wherever you go
Dont lose your grip on life and that means
Dont let any earthy calamity
knock your dreamer and your hoping machine
Music is the language of the mind that travels
Carries the key to the laws of time and space
Lonesome train whistling down the silent wail of wind
Life is the sound, creation has been a song
Whatever you do, wherever you go
Dont lose your grip on life and that means
Dont let any earthy calamity
knock your dreamer and your hoping machine
Out of order
Quick to manufacture their schemes and ideas
Faster than any turn a tide can wash you out
Word is the music and the people are the song
Tomorrows chances feel like a singing god
Whatever you do, wherever you go
Dont lose your grip on life and that means
Dont let any earthy calamity
knock your dreamer and your hoping machine
Out of order
Thanks for this, LWD
Happy New Year to you and yours!
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posted on
12/31/2013 6:26:28 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
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