This song always makes me think of my dad...he picked it out for his funeral. Everyone loved it and said it was just perfect. Everyone was smiling by the end.
In 1952, when I was 5 years old, an air force neighbor sang this song to me as he went in and out of the house, packing his belongings. He was headed to Korea. He never returned, and I can't remember his name, but I'll never forget him singing that song.
I never even thought of this as a Depression song. We sang it the last time we would be seeing our music teacher Miss Kullington in 1960's Center School. We were graduating up to that horrid Pine Hill School or she got a new job or something. I didn't take it seriously like we would never see her again and feel the sadness I do now over those times and her being our music teacher being gone forever.
Not Trying To Talk Shit, But It's Not A Great Depression Song, It's A Dust Bowl Song, It's About Black Sunday, The Worst Dust Storm Ever Recorded On Earth.
My new favourite song. I found it through The Avett brothers cover. I am not originally American but I’m married to an Okie now living in a small town in OK I has never heard about the dust bowl till last year when my husband&I watched The grapes of wrath. I fell asleep during the movie but since I’ve been listening to some of Woody’s songs I wanna watch the movie again
there's hardly any other folk artists like this since folk now is oliver twist or whatever the hell it is, just some punk rock knockoff shit nowadays and i hate it. Woody pioneered folk, and millenials ruined it.
I just remembered this song from when I was very young. I used to hear it on the radio. I'm very happy to find it was by Woody Guthrie, and I'm glad I got to hear it before he was blacklisted.
On this day [April 14] in 1935 a great dust storm covered the Texas Panhandle town of Pampa, inspiring Woody Guthrie to write the song "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You." Guthrie had moved to Pampa in 1929. Performing with bands at nightclubs and radio stations in the Panhandle, he found his calling as lyricist and musician and began developing skills that later gained him a reputation as a writer, cartoonist, and down-home philosopher. He married a Pampa girl, Mary Jennings, in 1933 and experienced the pain of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, sources of his many songs that appealed to his fellow sufferers. When the great storm of April 14, 1935, occurred, some Pampans thought that the end of the world was upon them and that there was just time for final goodbyes. Tired of dust and poverty, Guthrie left for Los Angeles in 1937. ~Texas State Historical Association
I learned this song when a good friend who's sadly no longer with us sang it for my beloved Squeak the Cat. I came here to find it for a friend who just today lost her furry friend Pupster, a blonde hound who was 15½ years old.
Thank you so much for this memory of the great Qoody Guthrie. If you like him you should search for "Alice's Restaurant" where his son Arlo Guthrie carries on. Yeah. Thank you.
Alice's Restaurant got co-opted by miserable centrists/moderates decades ago. Great song but the endless "not fascist but fascist-adjacent"s who play it on Thanksgiving, while pigging out in their "I WANT MOAR TAX CREDITS MOAR MOAR" homes as we're smack dab in the Second Gilded Age, reminds me of Ronald Reagan's cluelessness WRT Springsteen's Born In The USA.
Most modern folk singers are wise enough not to separate the working class up by race. Just like Woody, they understand that all workers should unite. Looking at one another differently by race only helps the aristocrats maintain power.
This song takes on an entirely new meaning and relevancy in the current state of the world; I truly think Guthrie was one of the best- imagine being woke before most of us were born.
@@KurtRichterCISSP Woody Guthrie... Woke??? Woke was not a thing when Woody was about or for that matter neither was Arlo. Woke is something of the 2020's.......
@@danielbeggan8024 The dictionary defines woke as "being alert to social injustice." If you define it as something else, you're plain flat wrong and it's just that simple. A lot of conservatives use woke as a catch-all term for anything they don't like because they are ignorant, and that's how their news sources use it, because their news sources are ignorant. Further, a lot of conservative racists and bigots use the term woke because it's easier to say "I don't like that because it's woke" instead of "I don't like that because it enables minorities."
In my preschool class back in the late 90s, we used to have "goodbye parties" for students who were leaving, whether to start kindergarten or just get taken out of the program. Whenever we had these parties, the leaving student would sit at the front of the class with the teacher, who would lead us in singing the chorus of this song, and then transition into Make New Friends But Keep The Old.
Truly inspiring. Woody Guthrie, and all his songs is what people should think of when they think about the USA. And not just things like baseball, hot dogs, etc. No, no. When people really think deep, think into the goodness and love within they will think of Woody Guthrie. He truly encaptures the spirit of our country and hopefully will till the end of time.
Woodie was an American socialist. An indigenous form of socialism, adopted by a patriot. The "commies", looked to, and allegedly took their marching orders from Moscow. Woodie, knew and socialized with the New York commie set. He thought their subservience to Moscow was wrong and stupid [my word], and made fun of that to their faces.
My family lived on a farm in North Dakota during the dust bowl. My grandfather died at the beginning and my grandmother was left with five kids. They nearly starved.
This is when we got to be called Okies. It was meant as a slur but my family took it and run with it. 'Why, yes, I am a Okie. You have a problem with that? Well, then, you got a problem…' Somethin in my eye, dust?
Dad was a teenager during the dust bowl. I remember him sayin' "to be called an "Okie" was fightin' words!" He would have disagreed with you. He hated that word.
in one of his lasst interviwes h was tlking about this song and how it had ment so much to him. so brian where ever you are ether you sailing or traveling i hope that this song will help get you there as safe a possible. Good luck Brian Jacques have along rest now its good to take a brake and thankks for the fun
Thanks brother-a great tune from a great man,but what impressed me most was the vid-wonderful selection of pictures thoughtfully put together..respect!
He died on my birthday (Oct 3rd) The decal on his gitbox read "This Machine Kills Fascists" Here's to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Canuck "Mac Paps" Long may the bells of Freedom Ring!
Parts of the song are being sung to me because of currents events, personally. Yet, Guthrie's lyrics, overall, bring it back to reality of his times....😢
@mkworkman yes, but... later on it became metaphoric for being on the road. I saw one of those dust storms when I was traveling in Australia. It's an awesome sight. flying topsoil. Woodie began 2be a regular traveler; it's like the dust taught him 2fly. I saw a picture of him with his Gibson guitar and no guitar case out on the road somewhere sitting next to Burl Ives, reading a copy of "The Hobo News".
The song's about the end of friendships, neighbourly, connections and tight knit communities brought on by the dust bowl atmosphere of the dirty 30's. This era left it's mark on an entire generation and psychologically made people very cautious when it came to their expenditures unlike today's folk determined to have it all without recognising the risks ...
Earl Christensen That all sounds good and everything but Sir where is the proof from what you say? Can you cite even a soupçon of sources for your rather bold assertions? If so I'd very much fancy perusing them.
I love this song. This song is so great. I hate country but I don't consider this country, this is folk singing at it's finest. You know, I feel that he was the original Bob Dylan. He didn't have as much crazy stuff to write about in his time, but he had the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. I love his music. And he had the best sticker ever on his guitar: THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS!!! Talk about bad ass...
Like anything else, 99% of the stuff played on the radio is crap, including country. The stuff that lasts is what's great. I don't listen to country radio so I don't know how often they play stuff I do like, such as Dwight Yoakum covering The Clash, or Gram Parsons, or Emmylou Harris...but I'm guessing they don't play it much.
in one of his lasst interviwes h was tlking about this song and how it had ment so much to him. so brian where ever you are ether you sailing or traveling i hope that this song will help get you there as safe a possible. Good luck Brian Jacques have along rest now its good to take a brake
Woody went through hell at the end. It’s now my time to face the same curse, due to carrying the mutant gene. I’ve always wondered why I was such a outcast from the beginning.
true, i've made the silly mistake of thinking when you make a mistake you actually learn from it. i have not figured into the fact that what i view as a mistake, i.e. starting wars that always end badly with millions dead and nothing gained, or letting robber barons steal the public till, or 30 years of a failed drug war... what i have failed to realize is the people who fund and believe in these things don't view them as mistakes, they believe society benefits from their greed and hatred.
Good point. That was a period when the industrial revolution and industrialists took advantage of the worker and we needed some balance in work compensation and opportunity. We are starting to see the widespread disparity in wages and the corporate rich, which creates a lot of social tension and unrest. We need to have a strong middle class if we want to prosper.
Sounds too good for Lomax's recordings, circa 1929.... I could be wrong... but in 1929, he was using a transcription disc recorder powered from his car generator. The discs are usually a bit noisy from the 20's, also they had a time limit of about 3 minutes. This sounds to be 50s or so.
🌿@Charlotte Stasio Maybe Will Rogers wrote a book about that time. Wasn't he a popular figure then? I'm sure he would have commented on Woody if he did. One thing is pretty sure. He must have been a good father, judging by the way Arlo turned out with that sense of humor and desire to follow in Woody's footsteps, fitting in so well with giants like Pete Seeger. I hope Woody was around long enough to realize what a talented son he had raised.
Tell that to the people who are working themselves to death and struggling to make it and get by while trying to hold on to what little bit of sanity they have left. Myself included. It FEELS like a fkn depression even if some call it a recession.Recession is just a fancy word for "WE'RE ALL SCREWED".
My father looks so much like him, he sang songs, road the trains all o er USA with he’s guitar smoked cigarettes, he left us at home, some thing as woody, he even looked like him, But my was Mexican, did the same as woody, but never was
[LEMON] We'll know each other a while yet, but I want you to finish the playlist, buddy. Today was your show, but now it's your turn to "direct." It took us a while to get here, but it's time to finish the job. If you love me, you won't let anyone die anymore. Don't blame yourself if somebody does, though. It won't be your fault. I'll keep living for our sake. I don't think I could stand knowing that I wouldn't see the face you choose.
"Why do you think TV is called "programming"?" This is one of the funniest lines I've heard about TV, did you find it yourself or heard it somewhere? If you did, can I steal it?
People want to listen to pop because its popular, makes them feel like they belong somewhere. Humans dont like being alone, and since no1 is bothering to look up old things because of this reason, it does out. Majority=popular(doesnt mean the song is good). Its people who keep things alive,not docs or paper. We talked about this in my eng class, except it was about how people keep democracy alive...
This song was inspired by Woody being in one of the worst dust storms in like 1936 in Texas. He became political due to the treatment of migrant works from the Dust Bowl by folks in California. He was not a communist in the sense of Stalin, but given the disparity between rich and poor and the treatment of workers in the 1930's/1940's he would appear to be very left asking for the things we take for granted.
i know what you mean, it's the same way with my family and me. they think reagan is the messiah, when in fact it's his economic policies that are ruining this country.
And AOCs ..those unwilling to work are No Better…Thats always been the problem…Parasites…on Top and on the Bottom…….MERITOCRACY NOW!….No More Promoting the Connected and the Favored Groups….Bush and Obama are prime examples…
@@kilroyishere6190 5% of congress has worked a blue collar job, aoc is one of them. over 50% of congress are millionaires, aoc is not one of them... you're barking up the wrong tree comrade. getting money out of politics, totally agree, it's a cancer on democracy.
When I went to Eastern Montana State in Billings, MT, I learned this song because they had a huge collection of Woody's recordings. I guess Arlo went there briefly before flunking out.
It's because we have a socialdemocratic ideology. A mix of state-controlled economy and marketing economy, which we call mixed market economy. The last 200 years our governments have had a very important issue of focus, the welfare system.
My father just died yesterday, he chose this as his funeral song ... I don't understand all the political comments and mud-slinging, it's offensive and does not belong here and has nothing to do with the original sentiment and lyrics
I'm sorry for your loss. This is also one of my favorite songs of Woody's, and I think it serves well as a farewell. We'll all have to go sometime, and if you can say this at the end, well, you could do a lot worse.
this calls for the communist manifesto: "you are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. but in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence is in the hands of those nine-tenths... from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, you say, individuality vanishes... your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois property."
you are so right, i don't care how rich people are, but i do care if people are so poor that they can't live a decent live, and with the richness in USA, this should not be a problem, USA needs a little socialism
Exactly mate! We have to look back in history! For me, I respect VERY MUCH Karl Marx and in some cases Lenin, but I disrespect Marxism and Leninism. I am anarchist communism like the spanish anarchosyndicalists in 1936 spanish revolution.
My Uncle sang this song on his deathbed to the doctors & nurses. It made everyone smile, laugh, and feel so comfortable.
kathy thomas Really. Wow. Great story!
kathy thomas Lovely! ❤️
That is nice...but I’m very sensitive,so I would’ve cried
i love this. thank you for sharing
He sounds like he was the kind of uncle that could joke about anything and it would be funny.
This song always makes me think of my dad...he picked it out for his funeral. Everyone loved it and said it was just perfect. Everyone was smiling by the end.
I love this song. This is a treasure. THANK YOU. I FEEL THE MUSIC HIS SOUL.
Woody Guthrie never lost faith in America and neither should we.
Amen
This the last song I played on the radio, after a 45 year career.
So cool. Great choice.
That's cool!!!
It would have taken me 44 to pick the right one.
Simple words with simple melodies make universal masterpieces. Thank you Woody, it is good to know you
In 1952, when I was 5 years old, an air force neighbor sang this song to me as he went in and out of the house, packing his belongings. He was headed to Korea. He never returned, and I can't remember his name, but I'll never forget him singing that song.
I never even thought of this as a Depression song. We sang it the last time we would be seeing our music teacher Miss Kullington in 1960's Center School. We were graduating up to that horrid Pine Hill School or she got a new job or something. I didn't take it seriously like we would never see her again and feel the sadness I do now over those times and her being our music teacher being gone forever.
Not Trying To Talk Shit, But It's Not A Great Depression Song,
It's A Dust Bowl Song, It's About Black Sunday, The Worst Dust Storm Ever Recorded On Earth.
@@CatArmyGeneral @Cat Army General No shit taken. ☺️. I was just responding to someone that said it was a Depression song.
She felt the same joy being your teacher that you felt being her student, if that's any consolation ❤
@@CatArmyGeneral The Dust Bowl contributed to the Great Depression. So there's that.
My new favourite song. I found it through The Avett brothers cover. I am not originally American but I’m married to an Okie now living in a small town in OK I has never heard about the dust bowl till last year when my husband&I watched The grapes of wrath. I fell asleep during the movie but since I’ve been listening to some of Woody’s songs I wanna watch the movie again
Not to change the subject but if you're interested in local history also look up the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre if you don't know about it already.
@@runrig97 I’ve read and watched documentaries about it. So sad!!
I played this after my dad's memorial. He loved some woody guthrie. ❤
It's a wonderfull song.. I love woody.. Seeger and the Almanac.. we need musicians like them .. Clever artists..
My mom was a huge Woody Guthery/Pete Seeger fan, so am I
there's hardly any other folk artists like this since folk now is oliver twist or whatever the hell it is, just some punk rock knockoff shit nowadays and i hate it. Woody pioneered folk, and millenials ruined it.
Can't forget Phil Ochs.
Thank you@@BazookaTooth707
Awesome video and song. Perfect for a high school class studying the great depression.
I love the music and the photos.
Learned that this song was written during the Black Sunday, April 14 1935, dust storm from the book "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan.
Kim Streuli Thank you so much for sharing that interesting tidbit Kim. Do you recommend the book? I hear he's a highly regarded writer.
DealReal12
yes I highly recommend this book
DealReal12 yes
I just finished reading that chapter!
I just read this bit in the book
I just remembered this song from when I was very young. I used to hear it on the radio. I'm very happy to find it was by Woody Guthrie, and I'm glad I got to hear it before he was blacklisted.
Everybody got blacklisted McCarthy was a fascist.
So simple and so powerful, folk music without embellishment at its purest. Still my favourite version.
brilliant is this one.Thank you so much Woody Guthrie .
Just realized mom was born in the Dirty Thirty’s in California during the days of the dust bowl. This song was interesting to hear. Thanks!
dust bowl never happened in cali
Just been to a friends Funeral and this was played as a Farewell song chosen by him to say goodbye, very touching ❤
On this day [April 14] in 1935 a great dust storm covered the Texas Panhandle town of Pampa, inspiring Woody Guthrie to write the song "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You." Guthrie had moved to Pampa in 1929. Performing with bands at nightclubs and radio stations in the Panhandle, he found his calling as lyricist and musician and began developing skills that later gained him a reputation as a writer, cartoonist, and down-home philosopher. He married a Pampa girl, Mary Jennings, in 1933 and experienced the pain of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, sources of his many songs that appealed to his fellow sufferers. When the great storm of April 14, 1935, occurred, some Pampans thought that the end of the world was upon them and that there was just time for final goodbyes. Tired of dust and poverty, Guthrie left for Los Angeles in 1937. ~Texas State Historical Association
Charles Osgood play it
Listening this as my accompaniment to the COVID apocalypse.
That's what brought me here.
You don't mind if I hang out. I'll keep a six foot space between us. I promise.
2020?
COVID 19
May I stay here for some time? I'm not a Russian spy. I promise.
I learned this song when a good friend who's sadly no longer with us sang it for my beloved Squeak the Cat. I came here to find it for a friend who just today lost her furry friend Pupster, a blonde hound who was 15½ years old.
I learned this song in grade school and sang part of it to my husband tonight and had to look it up.
beautifulll pics!!!
Thank you so much for this memory of the great Qoody Guthrie. If you like him you should search for "Alice's Restaurant" where his son Arlo Guthrie carries on. Yeah. Thank you.
Alice's Restaurant got co-opted by miserable centrists/moderates decades ago.
Great song but the endless "not fascist but fascist-adjacent"s who play it on Thanksgiving, while pigging out in their "I WANT MOAR TAX CREDITS MOAR MOAR" homes as we're smack dab in the Second Gilded Age, reminds me of Ronald Reagan's cluelessness WRT Springsteen's Born In The USA.
Most modern folk singers are wise enough not to separate the working class up by race. Just like Woody, they understand that all workers should unite. Looking at one another differently by race only helps the aristocrats maintain power.
And sometimes he sang specifically about racism, e.g., the song Old Man Trump.
Woody was on a merchant ship, under fire, went to sing to the crew, but stopped, made them bring them all together, black/white, THEN he sang!
Beautiful, touching song.
The uploader has done a magnificent job with the pictures he's chosen. Perfect! Two thumbs up! :)
Lots of Walker Evenas LOC photos. +1
seventeen thumbs up in the spring of CE2020
@@BibenRibeynibolds 🙀
This song takes on an entirely new meaning and relevancy in the current state of the world; I truly think Guthrie was one of the best- imagine being woke before most of us were born.
Don't talk shit!
The blacklist may be coming back.... the old Red Scare...
@@danielbeggan8024 care to elaborate?
@@KurtRichterCISSP Woody Guthrie... Woke??? Woke was not a thing when Woody was about or for that matter neither was Arlo. Woke is something of the 2020's.......
@@danielbeggan8024 The dictionary defines woke as "being alert to social injustice." If you define it as something else, you're plain flat wrong and it's just that simple. A lot of conservatives use woke as a catch-all term for anything they don't like because they are ignorant, and that's how their news sources use it, because their news sources are ignorant. Further, a lot of conservative racists and bigots use the term woke because it's easier to say "I don't like that because it's woke" instead of "I don't like that because it enables minorities."
In my preschool class back in the late 90s, we used to have "goodbye parties" for students who were leaving, whether to start kindergarten or just get taken out of the program.
Whenever we had these parties, the leaving student would sit at the front of the class with the teacher, who would lead us in singing the chorus of this song, and then transition into Make New Friends But Keep The Old.
Truly inspiring. Woody Guthrie, and all his songs is what people should think of when they think about the USA. And not just things like baseball, hot dogs, etc. No, no. When people really think deep, think into the goodness and love within they will think of Woody Guthrie. He truly encaptures the spirit of our country and hopefully will till the end of time.
Great shots and a proper song ""
Immortal woody Guthrie ✝️
We need to demonstrate our fellow comrades that jesus message is anti imperialistic. At least against all earthly empires :)
Woody once said "im not necessarily a commie but i have always been in the red "
keith farmer Now that's truly 😁 funny lol
Seeger said he was too erratic to be accepted as a Party member.
Better dead than red.
@@surplusdivision2461 give away your records
Woodie was an American socialist. An indigenous form of socialism, adopted by a patriot.
The "commies", looked to, and allegedly took their marching orders from Moscow.
Woodie, knew and socialized with the New York commie set. He thought their subservience to Moscow was wrong and stupid [my word], and made fun of that to their faces.
Wonderful song, i love it
this song reminds me of my first grade teacher cause she taught my class this song
Adrian Vlogs/Game s
same, ms binderup was the best teacher i ever had
ClassicalDeathMetal mine was Mrs.Gardener
A lot of us know about our past, but we foolishly regard it as 'only the past'. We assume that the future will be different, but it won't.
Woody Guthrie's songs its so pure
This song makes me think if folk songs really are the old rap.
Very good comment but the music to them is better
My music teacher in 3rd or 4th grade made us learn this song and im in 7th and i still remember it
Thats cool dude. Learn to play it on guitar its easy.
..another classic from a true american - RIP.....
😂🙀
My family lived on a farm in North Dakota during the dust bowl. My grandfather died at the beginning and my grandmother was left with five kids. They nearly starved.
This is when we got to be called Okies. It was meant as a slur but my family took it and run with it. 'Why, yes, I am a Okie. You have a problem with that? Well, then, you got a problem…'
Somethin in my eye, dust?
Dad was a teenager during the dust bowl. I remember him sayin' "to be called an "Okie" was fightin' words!" He would have disagreed with you. He hated that word.
in one of his lasst interviwes h was tlking about this song and how it had ment so much to him. so brian where ever you are ether you sailing or traveling i hope that this song will help get you there as safe a possible. Good luck Brian Jacques have along rest now its good to take a brake and thankks for the fun
Thanks brother-a great tune from a great man,but what impressed me most was the vid-wonderful selection of pictures thoughtfully put together..respect!
My grandfather used to play this for me.
He died on my birthday (Oct 3rd) The decal on his gitbox read "This Machine Kills Fascists" Here's to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Canuck "Mac Paps" Long may the bells of Freedom Ring!
The Lincoln Brigade was mostly made up of idealistic Communist, and they were treated rather badly by the Party in Spain.
I am now in 2024 reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Allen. I am 70 years young.
Parts of the song are being sung to me because of currents events, personally. Yet, Guthrie's lyrics, overall, bring it back to reality of his times....😢
beautiful
@mkworkman yes, but... later on it became metaphoric for being on the road. I saw one of those dust storms when I was traveling in Australia. It's an awesome sight. flying topsoil. Woodie began 2be a regular traveler; it's like the dust taught him 2fly. I saw a picture of him with his Gibson guitar and no guitar case out on the road somewhere sitting next to Burl Ives, reading a copy of "The Hobo News".
The song's about the end of friendships, neighbourly, connections and tight knit communities brought on by the dust bowl atmosphere of the dirty 30's. This era left it's mark on an entire generation and psychologically made people very cautious when it came to their expenditures unlike today's folk determined to have it all without recognising the risks ...
Earl Christensen That all sounds good and everything but Sir where is the proof from what you say? Can you cite even a soupçon of sources for your rather bold assertions? If so I'd very much fancy perusing them.
@@JBCo2012 Thesaurus.com been treating you well?
My grandparents lived in Pampa during this dust storm.
I love this song. This song is so great. I hate country but I don't consider this country, this is folk singing at it's finest. You know, I feel that he was the original Bob Dylan. He didn't have as much crazy stuff to write about in his time, but he had the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. I love his music. And he had the best sticker ever on his guitar: THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS!!! Talk about bad ass...
Like anything else, 99% of the stuff played on the radio is crap, including country. The stuff that lasts is what's great. I don't listen to country radio so I don't know how often they play stuff I do like, such as Dwight Yoakum covering The Clash, or Gram Parsons, or Emmylou Harris...but I'm guessing they don't play it much.
in one of his lasst interviwes h was tlking about this song and how it had ment so much to him. so brian where ever you are ether you sailing or traveling i hope that this song will help get you there as safe a possible. Good luck Brian Jacques have along rest now its good to take a brake
Live always, woody
so long, woody, it's been good to know ya!
Woody went through hell at the end. It’s now my time to face the same curse, due to carrying the mutant gene. I’ve always wondered why I was such a outcast from the beginning.
true, i've made the silly mistake of thinking when you make a mistake you actually learn from it. i have not figured into the fact that what i view as a mistake, i.e. starting wars that always end badly with millions dead and nothing gained, or letting robber barons steal the public till, or 30 years of a failed drug war...
what i have failed to realize is the people who fund and believe in these things don't view them as mistakes, they believe society benefits from their greed and hatred.
Good point. That was a period when the industrial revolution and industrialists took advantage of the worker and we needed some balance in work compensation and opportunity. We are starting to see the widespread disparity in wages and the corporate rich, which creates a lot of social tension and unrest. We need to have a strong middle class if we want to prosper.
Extremely well edited video. And your choice of images is superb. Congratulations and thank you!
Ron
Damn I'm depressed but these songs are pulling me out of it
Woody Guthrie Forever!
Yes! "Quien no conoce su historia esta condenado a repetirla."
You can always convince one half of the poor to kill off the other half
~ Boss Tweed~
It's a shame people don't know who woody guthrie is
good one!
Sounds too good for Lomax's recordings, circa 1929.... I could be wrong... but in 1929, he was using a transcription disc recorder powered from his car generator. The discs are usually a bit noisy from the 20's, also they had a time limit of about 3 minutes. This sounds to be 50s or so.
what a wonderfully bold adornment for the 1930's. I'd be interested to learn how Guthrie was thought of among his more proper contemporaries.
🌿@Charlotte Stasio
Maybe Will Rogers wrote a book about that time. Wasn't he a popular figure then? I'm sure he would have commented on Woody if he did.
One thing is pretty sure. He must have been a good father, judging by the way Arlo turned out with that sense of humor and desire to follow in Woody's footsteps, fitting in so well with giants like Pete Seeger. I hope Woody was around long enough to realize what a talented son he had raised.
@tommyjstas77 He was loved....He played with the greats...Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger....
Tell that to the people who are working themselves to death and struggling to make it and get by while trying to hold on to what little bit of sanity they have left. Myself included. It FEELS like a fkn depression even if some call it a recession.Recession is just a fancy word for "WE'RE ALL SCREWED".
My father looks so much like him, he sang songs, road the trains all o er USA with he’s guitar smoked cigarettes, he left us at home, some thing as woody, he even looked like him, But my was Mexican, did the same as woody, but never was
Happy 99th Woodrow!
[LEMON]
We'll know each other a while yet, but I want you to finish the playlist, buddy. Today was your show, but now it's your turn to "direct."
It took us a while to get here, but it's time to finish the job.
If you love me, you won't let anyone die anymore. Don't blame yourself if somebody does, though. It won't be your fault. I'll keep living for our sake. I don't think I could stand knowing that I wouldn't see the face you choose.
solidarity.
fuck what a classic gonna play this when i die !
keith farmer Great song but you seem angry. Why? Maybe you need Jesus Christ in your life. All his life Woody was trying to find Jesus it seems to me.
mito ed esempio x molti autori e cantautori
"Why do you think TV is called "programming"?"
This is one of the funniest lines I've heard about TV, did you find it yourself or heard it somewhere? If you did, can I steal it?
They broad CAST spells on to us through the tell lie visions, beLIEve or not.
People want to listen to pop because its popular, makes them feel like they belong somewhere. Humans dont like being alone, and since no1 is bothering to look up old things because of this reason, it does out. Majority=popular(doesnt mean the song is good). Its people who keep things alive,not docs or paper. We talked about this in my eng class, except it was about how people keep democracy alive...
This song was inspired by Woody being in one of the worst dust storms in like 1936 in Texas. He became political due to the treatment of migrant works from the Dust Bowl by folks in California. He was not a communist in the sense of Stalin, but given the disparity between rich and poor and the treatment of workers in the 1930's/1940's he would appear to be very left asking for the things we take for granted.
He was very closely associated with the Communist Party USA which was under Stalin.
April 14th, 1935 to be exact. Better known as "Black Sunday" in the Great Plains
this dusty old sandusky is blown me home
Steinbeck couldn't do it better! This is Americana at its most finest!
i know what you mean, it's the same way with my family and me. they think reagan is the messiah, when in fact it's his economic policies that are ruining this country.
And AOCs ..those unwilling to work are No Better…Thats always been the problem…Parasites…on Top and on the Bottom…….MERITOCRACY NOW!….No More Promoting the Connected and the Favored Groups….Bush and Obama are prime examples…
@@kilroyishere6190 5% of congress has worked a blue collar job, aoc is one of them. over 50% of congress are millionaires, aoc is not one of them... you're barking up the wrong tree comrade. getting money out of politics, totally agree, it's a cancer on democracy.
You must see the film:
Grapes of Wrath
My life soundtrack
take care of you, if i have no job you take care of me, if you got no job i take care of you", i think thats okay, we don't want to loose someone
When I went to Eastern Montana State in Billings, MT, I learned this song because they had a huge collection of Woody's recordings. I guess Arlo went there briefly before flunking out.
It's because we have a socialdemocratic ideology. A mix of state-controlled economy and marketing economy, which we call mixed market economy.
The last 200 years our governments have had a very important issue of focus, the welfare system.
Is there any guitar tabs for this. like the picking etc..
Thanks
OS AMERICANOS COM TUDO NAS MÃOS, UM CANTOR CANTA SUAS AMARGURAS , IMAGINA NOS AQUI NO BRAZIL.
stfu retarded ass Brazilian. don't you have somebody to rob on your motorcycle
gr8 song
My father just died yesterday, he chose this as his funeral song ...
I don't understand all the political comments and mud-slinging, it's offensive and
does not belong here and has nothing to do with the original sentiment and lyrics
I'm sorry for your loss. This is also one of my favorite songs of Woody's, and I think it serves well as a farewell. We'll all have to go sometime, and if you can say this at the end, well, you could do a lot worse.
My sincerest condolences. If your father choose a Woody song, he knew what things were about. Good man as the Irish say. May he rest in peace. x
thank you both for your kind words
no doubt time will heal
Time is the only healer and I speak from my own experience.
But still a great song and he knew what it was to him.
this calls for the communist manifesto:
"you are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. but in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence is in the hands of those nine-tenths... from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, you say, individuality vanishes... your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois property."
Yes you are so right
you are so right, i don't care how rich people are, but i do care if people are so poor that they can't live a decent live, and with the richness in USA, this should not be a problem, USA needs a little socialism
check out "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by B. Spingsteen..ya might be pleasantly surprised!
Do you know what would help me sleep at night? Knowing that Americans did run this world.
@algeva I think you mean 1939. The events in the song happened in 1935.
Exactly mate! We have to look back in history! For me, I respect VERY MUCH Karl Marx and in some cases Lenin, but I disrespect Marxism and Leninism. I am anarchist communism like the spanish anarchosyndicalists in 1936 spanish revolution.
Love those polemics.
2020?