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Woody Guthrie

Artist Song
Woody Guthrie  This Land Is Your Land  
Woody Guthrie  Pretty Boy Floyd  
Woody Guthrie  Do-Re-Mi  
Woody Guthrie  Rambling Round  
Woody Guthrie  Pastures of Plenty  
Woody Guthrie  Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know You)  
Woody Guthrie  Hard Traveling  
Woody Guthrie  Blowin' Down This Road  
Woody Guthrie  I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore  
Woody Guthrie  Philadelphia Lawyer  
Woody Guthrie  They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave  
Woody Guthrie  Vigilante Man  
Woody Guthrie  Roll On Columbia  
Woody Guthrie  Hard, Ain't It Hard  
Woody Guthrie  The Sinking of the Reuben James  

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With the feistiness of a bantamweight merchant mariner (which he was), Woody Guthrie personified a breed of patriot now virtually extinct. A radical socialist who’d seen as many people robbed by banks as by guns during the Depression, he celebrated America’s beauty and doggedly exposed its flaws. Ironically, Guthrie’s best-known tune is almost never heard all the way through. “This Land Is Your Land” was composed as a sort of warts-and-all antidote to Irving Berlin’s sentimental “God Bless America.” It helped earn Guthrie a two-inch-thick F.B.I. dossier (check out verses five and six), but it still rings true more than half-a-century later.
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