The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108972   Message #2274967
Posted By: PoppaGator
28-Feb-08 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: BDylan, JWhite, H
Subject: RE: BDylan, JWhite, H
Incidentally: One of Woody Guthrie's best-loved songs, "Deportees," was actually a poem/lyric of his put to music by someone else, in much the same manner as these current artists are about to "complete" Hank's unfinished songs.

Some have described "Deportees" as Woody's final composition; I take this to indicate that he wrote those words shortly before finally succumbing to his long final illness, never to put them to music and, also, never to write another lyric again.

(There are no rhyming lines in "Deportees," by the way. It took me years to realize this; the meter is so perfect, I suppose, that you don't readily notice the absense of rhymes.)