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Woody Guthrie
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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.
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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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All you can write is what you see.
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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
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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.
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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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Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me.
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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.
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I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
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Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.
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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.
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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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Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.
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All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
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If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
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Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
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If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
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You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
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It's round the world I've traveled it's round the world I've roamed but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home
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