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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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This land is made for you and me.
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As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said No Trespassing. But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
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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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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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The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.
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You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
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If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
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Love is the only medicine I believe in.
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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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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 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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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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All you can write is what you see.
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Do Re Mi California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi
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I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.
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I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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This land is your land, this land is my land
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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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Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.
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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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