Mudcat Café message #1680252

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Thread #89172 Message #1680252
Posted By: Abby Sale
27-Feb-06 - 10:19 AM
Thread Name: Happy! – Feb 27 (John Steinbeck)
Subject: Happy! – Feb 27 (John Steinbeck)

Happy Birthday!

John Steinbeck

was born 2/27/1902
(d.12/20/1968)


          Tom Joad he met a truck driving man,
          There he caught him a ride,
          He said, "I just got loose from McAlester's pen
          On a charge called homicide.
          A charge called homicide."
  
                  "Tom Joad," Woody Guthrie; © Ludlow Music, Inc. 1960, 
                  The (nearly) Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folk Songs, 1963