Artist: Billy Bragg & Wilco
Author: Woody Guthrie/Jeff Tweedy/Jay Bennett
Label: Elektra
Year: 1998

On Mermaid Avenue, named after the street in Coney Island, NY where the Guthries lived. Daughter Nora, head of the Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archive, gave Billy Bragg a large number of song lyrics her father left behind without music. Wilco was asked to join in and they composed this one.