Happy Birthday Woody! Woody was born July 14, 1912 in Okemah, OK. We celebrate his enduring legacy...his songs which gave voice to the working class, marginalized, and dispossessed, as well as his influence on musicians to write songs about social activism & human rights with honesty & clever wit.

WOODY SEZ ~ “Every living song I’ve ever made up is a hard times song of protest.”

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WOODY SEZ ~ "I’m gonna tell you fascists You may be surprised The people in this world Are getting organized You’re bound to lose You fascists bound to lose... People of every color Marching side to side Marching ‘cross these fields Where a million fascists died..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...

WOODY SEZ ~ "Life has got a habit on not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that you don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."

WOODY SEZ ~ "If you walk across my camera, I will flash the world your story"

WOODY SEZ ~ "Change the pen and change the ink Change the way you talk and think Change the tubes and change the tires Change the things your heart desires Change your makeup change your curl Change the way of this changing world."

WOODY SEZ ~ "All of my words, if not well put, nor well taken, are well meant."

On February 23, 1940, Woody penned what would be his most well-known song, This Land Was Made For You and Me. At the bottom of the lyric he noted, "All you can write is what you see". As an observational writer, Woody documented history, stories of hardship, racism, and injustice in his songs.

Bob Dylan penned "Song to Woody" on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1961, set to the tune of Woody's song "1913 Massacre". "I'm out here a thousand miles from my home Walkin' a road other men have gone down I'm seein' your world of people and things Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings...

WOODY SEZ ~ "Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, this world is such a great and a funny place to me; Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor, and I ain't got no home in this world anymore."

WOODY SEZ ~ "Whatever you do, wherever you go, don't lose your grip on life and that means don't let any earthly calamity knock your dreamer and your hoping machine."

WOODY SEZ ~ Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees" Woody penned this song on Feb 3, 1948, after a plane crashed carrying 28 Mexican nationals who were heading home.

WOODY GUTHRIE was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well-oiled track. They've become the folk song standards of the nation, known and performed throughout the world. He wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime.

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