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| (Woody Guthrie) |
| (o): | Woody Guthrie (1945) | label: Asch |
| | Dylan about Woody: "Listening to his songs is learn how to live, how to feel; he was like a guide. I couldn't believe I had never heard of him before." Woody to Dylan: "The words are the important thing. Don't worry about the tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow and you've got a new tune." This tune he got from The Nightingale (see there). |
| (c): | Rambling Jack Elliott (1959) , Bob Dylan (1962) [as Song To Woody; same tune, as a tip of the hat and one verse from Woody's Pastures Of Plenty], Arlo Guthrie (1973) , Jules Shear (2004) , |
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| On Christmas day 1913 in Calumet, Michigan, copper miners on strike had a solidarity gathering with their families when hired strike breakers blocked the doors and shouted "Fire". Widespread panic caused the death of 73 children. This typecase of anti-unionism was bluntly overlooked in most American history books, reason enough for Woody to write a song. |
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