The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #148179   Message #3438602
Posted By: Barbara Shaw
19-Nov-12 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Ken Burns's 'The Dust Bowl'
Subject: RE: Ken Burns's 'The Dust Bowl'
I saw the last half of part 1 last night and thought it was powerful, horrifying, edifying. The hour ended with Woodie Guthrie's "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" as mentioned above.

What brings me to post, however, is the credit (above) of Woodie's song "I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore)." I just finished adding a song to our Shaw Family Songbook last night called "This World Is Not My Home" credited to Albert E. Brumley.

Turns out this is the same melody, same idea in the title, but different lyrics. Woodie and Brumley both apparently got the tune from a much earlier source in the African-American spiritual tradition, according to one source.