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This Land Is Your Land
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Woody Guthrie
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This Land Is Your Land Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Calling Card
"Here's this guy who always had all these words and now that he's making it really big, he can't say anything" (Klein xiv). Woody Guthrie died in 1967 after spending the last twelve years of his li...
Music
Alan Lomax once described Woody Guthrie as "an unwitting classicist, someone who understood the power and integrity of the traditional forms and sang the old songs in an old-fashioned way, his voic...
Songwriting
"There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't any too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even to vote like you want to, folks have found...