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Posted By: GUEST,Philippa
10-Jan-17 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Songs for/about Woody Guthrie
Subject: RE: Songs for/about Woody Guthrie
Andy Irvine -
https://andyirvinelyrics.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/never-tire-of-the-road/

NEVER TIRE OF THE ROAD

was just a small-town country boy when I left that dusty town
Route 66 to the westward and hopped an old freight down
California, here I come
By the side-door Pullman and the sunburnt thumb
And they called us Okies, lowdown bums
And the police on us frowned

(Chorus)
Never tire of the road
Never tire of the rolling wheel
Never tire of the ways of the world
Way out yonder is a-calling me
And the dark road leads me onwards
And the highway that's my code
And the lonesome voice that I heard in my head said
Never tire of the road

California to the New York Island, me and my guitar
And we played in many a hobo jungle, many a skid-row bar
Standing out in the wind and the rain
That lonesome whistle is a sweet refrain
When you are waiting for some old freight train
That carries an empty car

Shipped on board a Liberty ship to sail the ocean blue
We were carrying guns, TNT, D-Day soldiers too
All of the men on board agreed
With Cisco, Jimmy Longhi and me
And our song rang out across the sea
You fascists bound to lose

All of you fascists bound to lose
All of you fascists bound to lose
I said, all you fascists bound to lose
You're bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose

Don't let them ever fool you or take you by surprise
That dirty smell of the politician and the man with the greed in his eyes
One big union that's our plan
And the IWW's your only man
The flames of discontent we'll fan
For the cause that never dies

Alternative Last Verse:

Don't let them ever fool you or take you by surprise
That dirty smell of the politician and the man with the greed in his eyes
Woody might be dead & gone
But the words he wrote they still live on
May his spirit ever shine upon
The cause that never dies

    By Andy Irvine

    "Never Tire of the Road", Irvine's tribute to his lifelong hero, Woody Guthrie. In this updated version, Irvine included the chorus from a song Guthrie recorded in March 1944: "You Fascists Are Bound to Lose".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRg6X1sHBt4