Showing posts with label Woody Guthrie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woody Guthrie. Show all posts
Repeal and replace
The National Anthem.
"The Star-Spangled Banner." Too martial.
"This Land Is Your Land" and "America the Beautiful." More uplifting and far easier to sing, although the latter may not be sufficiently secular.
It should have been Woody's song all along:
Old Man Trump
You may know that Woody Guthrie despised Donald Trump's father for his racist real estate practices and wrote bitterly about them in some unpublished work.
Before he lived in a Trump-owned apartment in Brooklyn, however, Guthrie spent many years between the wars in Los Angeles. He wrote songs about those whose voices too often went unheard: the working people, the Dust Bowl refugees, the poor, the homeless, and the people of Skid Row.
The rest of the story:
Woody Guthrie and Skid Row in Los Angeles by Darryl Holter (KCET)
Before he lived in a Trump-owned apartment in Brooklyn, however, Guthrie spent many years between the wars in Los Angeles. He wrote songs about those whose voices too often went unheard: the working people, the Dust Bowl refugees, the poor, the homeless, and the people of Skid Row.
The rest of the story:
Woody Guthrie and Skid Row in Los Angeles by Darryl Holter (KCET)
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