The Immortal Words Of Woody Guthrie [quote of the day]

The Immortal Words Of Woody Guthrie

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a
song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose.
No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too
young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs
that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard
traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air
and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you
that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and
knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are,
how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride
in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for
the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire
out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every
week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that
knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more
and the ones that make you think you ve not got any sense at all. But I

decided a long time ago that I d starve to death before I d sing any
such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes
and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no
good songs as that anyhow.

Woody Guthrie
1912-1967

Woody wrote many things...................

This land is your Land

was the most important to me

Linda





Will Dockery <shadowville.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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 > The Immortal Words Of Woody Guthrie
 >
 > "I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a
 > song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose.
 > No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too
 > young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs
 > that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard
 > traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air
 > and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you
 > that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and
 > knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are,
 > how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride
 > in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for
 > the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire
 > out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every
 > week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that
 > knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more
 > and the ones that make you think you ve not got any sense at all. But I
 >
 > decided a long time ago that I d starve to death before I d sing any
 > such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes
 > and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no
 > good songs as that anyhow.
 >
 > Woody Guthrie
 > 1912-1967<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->