Good lord, Kat! What an excerpt.

That is the Holy Word of Life in a nutshell. That's the foundation of existence, and Woody Guthrie put it all down in simple words in what must have been, for him, a moment of pure inspiration. (And Woody wasn't always so nice to the people he knew...but he had the capacity to believe in the innate goodness and noble potential of humanity and to care deeply about people. That's very evident in his work.)

No wonder the young Bob Dylan said of him the he was "the greatest, the holiest" (some words to that effect...I don't recall exactly) The young Bob Dylan loved Woody Guthrie and everything he stood for so much that he'd have done anything for him. That's pretty much how I felt about the young Bob Dylan too. It goes around. When someone can speak a great truth and go straight to the heart of it and lay it bare, hearing that can change another person's life forever.

THANK YOU, Kat! I might never have seen Woody's words on this if you hadn't posted them here.