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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy 100th Birthday, Woody Guthrie!
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And some great cover versions of Woody's songs
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)And "This land is your land, this land is my land....This land was made for you and me".
Sigh...now if only we could get teahadists, er, tea partiers to believe it.
underpants
(182,279 posts)This was amazing to see. High level pharmaceutical types were there and they had to sit there and face Ani blasting them.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)They, of course, being the Plaza management, not the Guthrie Foundation, before anyone gets me wrong on that.
(that's based on the old observation that the radical wildman Scottish singer-poet Robbie Burns would probably get kicked out if he try to sneak in to a "Burns night" gathering anywhere in modern Scotland or the States).
I could even picture Woody getting a song out of it...might be something like this
I Showed up at the Plaza for some food
I showed up at the Plaza for some food
I showed up for some food, but the maitre'd was rude
He kicked me out that door, travelin' hard, travellin' hard
I snuck back through the kitchen, after that
I snuck back through the kitchen, after that
I made friends just like that, had some grub and tipped my hat,
We took over that hotel, travelin' hard, travelin' hard
(and so forth)
That was a great story about them opening the doors as they were singing "This Land Is Your Land" so that the Republicans next door could hear them.
underpants
(182,279 posts)still, it was awesome to watch
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
underpants
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