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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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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.
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The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
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I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.
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Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.
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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.
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Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
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My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls.
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A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
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Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.
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This land is your land, this land is my land
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I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
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I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
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All of you cowboys, fight for your land.
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You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
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