WOODY SEZ ~ “Every living song I’ve ever made up is a hard times song of protest.”
WOODY SEZ ~ “Every living song I’ve ever made up is a hard times song of protest.”
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WOODY SEZ ~ “Every living song I’ve ever made up is a hard times song of protest.”
WOODY SEZ ~ “Every living song I’ve ever made up is a hard times song of protest.”
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOODY!
We're celebrating Woody's birthday with a great big present!
Announcing "Woody At Home: Volumes 1 & 2"
Release Date: August 14, 2025!
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WOODY SEZ ~
"I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose...
People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching ‘cross these fields
Where a million fascists died..."
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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."
"In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?"
Our gratitude to Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and Tao Rodríguez-Seeger for giving us our favorite performance of this song...
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.
Yes, when Woody & his family lived in the Beach Haven apartment complex in the early 1950s, Woody witnessed Fred Trump's racist housing practices and wrote a handful of scathing lyrics about it. Here's one that was set to music by Ryan Harvey. Music video too! www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Old_M...
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"
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...I'm a-singin' you this 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 and Sonny and Leadbelly too
And to all the good people that traveled with you
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men...
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."
Guadalupe Ramírez Lara
Alberto Carlos Raygoza
Guadalupe Rodríguez Hernández
Maria Rodríguez Santana
Wenceslao Ruiz Flores
Juan Ruiz Valenzuela
José Sánchez Valdivia
Jesús Santos Meza
Baldomero Marcos Torres
CREW:
Frank Atkinson
Mrs. Bobbie Atkinson
Marion Ewing
Frank E. Chaffin
Salvador Hernández Sandoval
Severo Lara Medina
José Macías Rodríguez
Elías Macías Trujillo
Tomás Márquez Padilla
Luis Medina López
Manuel Merino Calderón
Luis Miranda Cuevas
Ignacio Navarro Pérez
Martín Navarro Razo
Ramón Ochoa Ochoa
Ramón Paredes González
Apolonio Placencia Ramírez...
And thanks to recent and ongoing research by Tim Z. Hernandez, those originally reported as "deportees" have now all been named and recognized!
Miguel Álvarez Negrete
Francisco Durán Llamas
Santiago Elizondo García
Rosalío Estrada Padilla
Bernabé García López
Tomás Gracia de Aviña...
Set to music by Martin Hoffman, "Deportee" has been sung for decades by musicians Joan Baez, Judy Collins, The Highwaymen, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Lyle Lovett & Los Texmaniacs, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie among others. Our thanks to these musicians for keeping this song and story alive.
WOODY SEZ ~
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"
Woody penned this song on Feb 3, 1948, after a plane crashed carrying 28 Mexican nationals who were heading home.
"Dust Bowl Ballads" album by Woody Guthrie
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.
Sheet music for "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie
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.
Photograph of Woody Guthrie by Al Aumuller, ca 1943.
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