I saw him sing at Cornell 8 times. He always sang after the concert outdoors so people who couldn't afford tickets could see him sing! Such a wonderful man and activist.
It's so sad that those days are gone. Men with principles who stood up for the common man. Now everybody wants to be a super hero or a billionaire. Sad, sad times when we're ashamed of just being a man among other men. I, for one, have always been proud to be a common man, and so were Pete and Woody.
It sucks because nowadays you have to be a millionaire or mogul for anyone to pay attention to you. It used to be about principles... now its about "what can you do for me"
Actually, these guys played hotels and schools, the fact is likely there are a THOUSAND of such people playing, trouble is we just don't hear about it now any more than they heard about it then. Somebody Petes age would likely say "I never even heard of that guy" but would know the Beatles,e tc.
Woody was America's unspoken ambassador, he told about the people's hardships, the beauty of America landscape .He was true individual, an American treasure.
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie made America great, to coin a phrase. They were courageous and showed the power of decency. When I want to clear the bitterness from my soul I listen to their songs.
@@shoeby9273 My theory has always been that our Founders couldn't have been stupid enough to think we'd ACHIEVED the lofty principles America was founded on, but rather that its the duty of every successive generation to bring us one step closer to achieving those ideals. Today we are closer than ever before but still not there yet. Especially if the Regressives get there way and drag us back into Jim Crow.
I don't remember these verses being in the school book 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. In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me?
We learned it in the 90s and 2000s as well when i was in elementary school. Today as a leftist truck driver i blast Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs in my truck all the time toolin around the country.
@thesultrystrangerdanger6824 I listen to Tupac, Immortal Technique, and Public Enemy as well, but Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger are classics. Casey Jones The Union Scab, Little Boxes, Solidarity Forever, Tear the Fascists Down.
My family and I enjoyed many of Arlo and Pete's annual ( Saturday after Thanksgiving ) Carnegie Hall concerts. They always ended with a rousing sing-a-long of "Goodnight Irene".
Until now I had only heard him singing, with brief interludes for speech. Now I hear that the reason he sings with such warmth, is because he talks that way too, not only in cadence, but also in the individual words. Truly a folk hero that more of us should strive to be.
Woody and Pete inspired so many of us! When I was a young man I saw Pete perform at the Highlander School as well as Jean Richie and Guy Carawan. Thanks for this video!
Remember a bus trip with fellow students in the early sixties when a pretty little blond under class person sang "If I had a Hammer" in a melodious soprano that completely captured the people in the bus.
I was born in 98’ in Canada. And I remember singing that song in elementary, loved that song. Now that I’m gettin into this kinda stuff it’s weird how full circle it is
Songs in schools how 25 years later "everyone" knew and sang this (though without the dropped verses) If we had more singing, especially of songs of appreciation, good will, and equality for all, starting in elementary school, perhaps we would have a kinder and happier world. I too sang this in the 60's in elementary school. Many years later would learn the union and protest songs. Saw Pete Seeger on the Hudson River on more than one occasion. Hard to describe how nostalgic this all makes me.
Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls pick them, every one. Where have all the young girls gone? Gone to young men, every one. Where have all the young men gone? Gone to soldiers, every one. Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to grave-yards, every one. Where have all the grave-yards gone? Gone to flowers, every one. Flowers means life. Learn in life before we die... When will we ever learn? Be humble and be self-controlled and to give instead of to earn. 🌷
I'm Canadian and the version we learned in school was not written by Woody I'm certain as all the original versions sung by Woody had different lyrics.
They don't teach this stuff in school - the curriculum told us "and then there were unions and we're all good now" except we're not... didn't exactly stick
I entered 1st grade in 1960 and learned This Land is Your Land and Roll On, Columbia. It was maybe in 2nd grade I’m not sure. My town was on the Columbia River. I remember participating in a school concert featuring all civil war songs. I was chosen to dance and sing a song about minstrels called Mr. Banjo with a small group of kids dressed in black face. I still know all the words. Cringey 😬 Them was the days 🤦♀️
"It is what it is" as they say. I always preferred Pete Seeger to Woody, and by all accounts he was a pretty good father and husband. But as Roger Waters sings, "after all we're only ordinary men". Woody always seemed in it a little too much for himself, despite singing working class songs, but then Pete's brother says Pete was all about showing off at a young age too. To be fair, its clear Woody had a mental illness when he attacked his wife.
Grew up during my teenage years in the same little city as Pete lived. Ever since Viet Nam could never stand the guy. We all disagreed about the War but we should have been there and supported all the young soldiers who went there and especially those who never came back. Pete never sung a song for one of those young men. "Knee deep in the Big Muddy" just never made it for me. Goodbye Pete!
So I take it you're never heard Where Have All The Flowers Gone? 🙄 Pete was an American Patriot, irregardless of your opinion. BTW, It's WAIST deep in the Big Muddy
@@martincouch3723 Pete was NEVER a patriot. Where have all the flowers gone was a protest song. It was NOT a song FOR the soldiers of Vietnam. He was simply a Pied Piper leading young people down the aisle anti-American sentiment. I ought to know. I was one of them. Besides all that he even acknowledged he was at one time a member of the Communist party. Don't recognize your name. Did you grow up in Beacon or anywhere in the mid-Hudson area?
Seeger always struck me as a little bit too melodramatic and phony in his personal presentation and I'll listen to his songs but not his preaching. He was a member of the CPUSA, and only pulled away as the reputation of Stalin became known. I don't know if he ever was publicly honest about his deeper feelings when the black-listing threat was over. The Vietnam times were crazy, and an honest and caring American would have recognized the feelings and values of the individuals involved. I remember a You-Tube clip of his show where he had a member of the Clancy Brothers who said he was going to sing an old English folk song. Seeger made joke about him singing something English, and the Irish man just looked at him confused. Definition of a Scheiss stirrer. How many people lost their lives in Ireland?
I saw him sing at Cornell 8 times. He always sang after the concert outdoors so people who couldn't afford tickets could see him sing! Such a wonderful man and activist.
It's so sad that those days are gone. Men with principles who stood up for the common man. Now everybody wants to be a super hero or a billionaire. Sad, sad times when we're ashamed of just being a man among other men. I, for one, have always been proud to be a common man, and so were Pete and Woody.
Well said, sir!
True gotta be humble and happy
Well they do have one thing in common. They are communists
It sucks because nowadays you have to be a millionaire or mogul for anyone to pay attention to you. It used to be about principles... now its about "what can you do for me"
Actually, these guys played hotels and schools, the fact is likely there are a THOUSAND of such people playing, trouble is we just don't hear about it now any more than they heard about it then. Somebody Petes age would likely say "I never even heard of that guy" but would know the Beatles,e tc.
Pete had such a charming voice.
It's truly the most comforting voice I've ever heard
Politics aside this man was a tireless warrior of the poor and downtrodden and a hero of mine
you talkin the only politics that matter, friend.
He also thought Stalin was a pretty cool guy.
@@mwells219 he apologized in 1993 "for not seeing that Stalin was a supremely cruel misleader."
Yes politics aside.,🧐😐😐😐
That is politics. The politics of the left.
This is Pure Gold
R.I.P Woody Guthry
Woody was America's unspoken ambassador, he told about the people's hardships, the beauty of America landscape .He was true individual, an American treasure.
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie made America great, to coin a phrase. They were courageous and showed the power of decency. When I want to clear the bitterness from my soul I listen to their songs.
I love the original message of _This Land is Your Land_
America has sucked a lot. However men like these have been here since the beginning. Even some of our founding fathers.
@@shoeby9273 My theory has always been that our Founders couldn't have been stupid enough to think we'd ACHIEVED the lofty principles America was founded on, but rather that its the duty of every successive generation to bring us one step closer to achieving those ideals. Today we are closer than ever before but still not there yet. Especially if the Regressives get there way and drag us back into Jim Crow.
Well put.
@@KingBrandonmIf the founders showed up in 2024 they'd immediately start trying to put half the population in shackles
Pete is delightful. Always has been.
We were lucky to have him for 94 years.
great story teller. Pete must have followed Mark Twain's advice, that if you always tell the truth you never have to remember anything.
1967 my 5th grade teacher would play the banjo and we all sang the chorus, I can still picture it
I don't remember these verses being in the school book
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.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Makes sense, they're also never sung in TV
that was a conscious effort to defuse the meaning of the song for pure 'patriotism', which makes those lines even better to me.
What a great little snapshot of history this recording is. Glad I stumbled upon it.
We learned 'This Land is Your Land' in elementary school in the early 70s.
We learned it in the 90s and 2000s as well when i was in elementary school. Today as a leftist truck driver i blast Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs in my truck all the time toolin around the country.
Bro... Get woke go broke... This land is my 🏠
@@KingBrandonm where is tupac amaru shakur
@thesultrystrangerdanger6824 I listen to Tupac, Immortal Technique, and Public Enemy as well, but Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger are classics. Casey Jones The Union Scab, Little Boxes, Solidarity Forever, Tear the Fascists Down.
@thesultrystrangerdanger6824 I loved when Chuck D, B Real and Tom Morello formed Prophets of Rage.
My family and I enjoyed many of Arlo and Pete's annual ( Saturday after Thanksgiving ) Carnegie Hall concerts. They always ended with a rousing sing-a-long of "Goodnight Irene".
Pete was such a humble man. He too, was a legend
One of my favorite protest singer/songwriters.
Woody and Pete, where would we be without their wonderful example and influence.
What a gentle soul
Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow ~ Pete Seeger
Until now I had only heard him singing, with brief interludes for speech. Now I hear that the reason he sings with such warmth, is because he talks that way too, not only in cadence, but also in the individual words. Truly a folk hero that more of us should strive to be.
I attended a Catholic school in the sixties, our song book was a school folk text book , the first song in it was This Land is Your Land.
i wish i knew od Seeger when i was younger.
the mans very humble.
One of the greatest videos on RUclips Pete Seeger's story telling is amazing!
A beautiful mind...RIP Pete.
can't stop watching pete's vids
Woody and Pete inspired so many of us!
When I was a young man I saw Pete perform at the Highlander School as well as Jean Richie and Guy Carawan.
Thanks for this video!
Remember a bus trip with fellow students in the early sixties when a pretty little blond under class person sang "If I had a Hammer" in a melodious soprano that completely captured the people in the bus.
I remember singing this when I was a little kid!
We sang it in elementary school but we didn’t have a clue as to the meaning behind it.
I was born in 98’ in Canada. And I remember singing that song in elementary, loved that song. Now that I’m gettin into this kinda stuff it’s weird how full circle it is
One hell of a good interview
I remember singing this song in elementary school.
Thank you Pete for sharing this about Woody.
Love that, thanks for putting it up
Songs in schools how 25 years later "everyone" knew and sang this (though without the dropped verses) If we had more singing, especially of songs of appreciation, good will, and equality for all, starting in elementary school, perhaps we would have a kinder and happier world. I too sang this in the 60's in elementary school. Many years later would learn the union and protest songs. Saw Pete Seeger on the Hudson River on more than one occasion. Hard to describe how nostalgic this all makes me.
I'd guess Pete Seeger has forgotten more great stories than I'll ever know in my whole life.
Pete Seger, one my musical heroes
This is great! Thanks!
Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls pick them, every one.
Where have all the young girls gone? Gone to young men, every one.
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone to soldiers, every one.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to grave-yards, every one.
Where have all the grave-yards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one.
Flowers means life. Learn in life before we die...
When will we ever learn? Be humble and be self-controlled and to give instead of to earn. 🌷
Pete Seeger & John Prine are gone, Henry Kissinger & Dick Cheney are still alive. What a world.
And Julian Assange is a prisoner bound for jail,. and George Bush Junior is on television being courted as the saner and wiser voice of republicans.
I remember singing this land is your land in school.
I love Pete. If you don’t, I refuse to know you.
We sang that song in Newzealand in the 1950s this land Is your land this land is my land
Sang the song in the 60s in school.
Werry interessting to hear Seeger telling this.
great
Fascinating
Im only 27, and I sang it in grade school.
good history.
Woody wouldn't sing dumb songs. I love that. Look at all the pop singers today with their stupid songs.
This Land is Your Land should be the National anthem.
I'm Canadian and the version we learned in school was not written by Woody I'm certain as all the original versions sung by Woody had different lyrics.
They don't teach this stuff in school - the curriculum told us "and then there were unions and we're all good now" except we're not... didn't exactly stick
Good Story
I entered 1st grade in 1960 and learned This Land is Your Land and Roll On, Columbia. It was maybe in 2nd grade I’m not sure. My town was on the Columbia River. I remember participating in a school concert featuring all civil war songs. I was chosen to dance and sing a song about minstrels called Mr. Banjo with a small group of kids dressed in black face. I still know all the words. Cringey 😬 Them was the days 🤦♀️
🚂Freight train to heaven, booys.🛤
Well that was extraordinary……
🧨🧨
Who's the interviewer? The voice sounds familiar.
Tim Robbins
😁
Schools YES!
Hitch Hiking on Credit!
"He was not a good father, and not a good husband." That is a real shame, but he was, surely, a good person at heart. So is Pete Seeger, of course.
"It is what it is" as they say. I always preferred Pete Seeger to Woody, and by all accounts he was a pretty good father and husband. But as Roger Waters sings, "after all we're only ordinary men". Woody always seemed in it a little too much for himself, despite singing working class songs, but then Pete's brother says Pete was all about showing off at a young age too. To be fair, its clear Woody had a mental illness when he attacked his wife.
I want to hang out with the 82,624 lot of you. Especially 12 of you.
I would rather have written one Woody Guthrie song than be the richest man in the world
Guthrie was the first true American antifa punk prove me wrong
Grew up during my teenage years in the same little city as Pete lived. Ever since Viet Nam could never stand the guy. We all disagreed about the War but we should have been there and supported all the young soldiers who went there and especially those who never came back. Pete never sung a song for one of those young men. "Knee deep in the Big Muddy" just never made it for me. Goodbye Pete!
So I take it you're never heard Where Have All The Flowers Gone? 🙄
Pete was an American Patriot, irregardless of your opinion.
BTW, It's WAIST deep in the Big Muddy
@@martincouch3723 Pete was NEVER a patriot. Where have all the flowers gone was a protest song. It was NOT a song FOR the soldiers of Vietnam. He was simply a Pied Piper leading young people down the aisle anti-American sentiment. I ought to know. I was one of them. Besides all that he even acknowledged he was at one time a member of the Communist party. Don't recognize your name. Did you grow up in Beacon or anywhere in the mid-Hudson area?
Seeger always struck me as a little bit too melodramatic and phony in his personal presentation and I'll listen to his songs but not his preaching. He was a member of the CPUSA, and only pulled away as the reputation of Stalin became known. I don't know if he ever was publicly honest about his deeper feelings when the black-listing threat was over. The Vietnam times were crazy, and an honest and caring American would have recognized the feelings and values of the individuals involved. I remember a You-Tube clip of his show where he had a member of the Clancy Brothers who said he was going to sing an old English folk song. Seeger made joke about him singing something English, and the Irish man just looked at him confused. Definition of a Scheiss stirrer. How many people lost their lives in Ireland?
Well tell me again,why were we fighting and dying in Vietnam ? Pete new and was standing up against those reasons.
why would you spend your time watching interviews with people you dislike ?