Hell, Art, it was a great song, and you meant well. Dante misrepresented the people of Siena in the Divine Comedy. Shakespeare's Richard III is Tudor propaganda. People have been complaining about how badly Mrs. Casey Jones was treated in "Casey Jones" for 70 years. Maybe your song will be a hit, and people will start yelling and screaming about whether Woody Guthrie was a saint or not, which would at least get his name in the paper again.
yours, Peter T.