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Thread #22914   Message #252222
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Jul-00 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: Another Piece of Mindless Stupidity
Subject: RE: Another Piece of Mindless Stupidity
"Strange Fruit" is in DigiTrad. "Lowlands Of Holland 4" also contains the phrase "strange fruit." Coincidence?

"God Bless America" is not in DT, but I did find lyrics here. It's rather short. Is something missing? It's kind of sappy by today's standards, but I don't see anything offensive about it. After all, it was 1940, war was raging in Europe although the US wasn't in it, so it seems like an appropriate time to celebrate "a land that's free" it contrast to what Hitler was doing in Europe. Why did Woody Guthrie feel that it needed an answer?