just a further aside, there is one reason that most of the people that post here can sing all of the lyrics to 'Goodnight, Irene' - the Weavers, with Pete Seeger
and Pete Seeger's 'Wimmoweh' became 'The lion SLeeps Tonight' heard on every radio station from coast to coast, and which was used again later in 'The Lion King' which has been seen by more children in recent years than probably anything else. If you have kids you probably have a DVD of it in your home right now. talk about influence.

and then think about the cross cultural diversity embodied in that song, the beginnings of the acceptance of other musics from other lands, and then leading to the later more honest acceptance of America's own 'race music' into the larger culture.

all spawned by Pete's own big heart, I'd say. and let's not forget, 'We Shall Overcome'.