Happy (?) Birthday Woody

Subject: Happy (?) Birthday Woody
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 11:55 AM

I doubt if birthdays are too important if you're dead, but I just thought it was worth mentioning since most of us have been influenced to one degree or another by Woody. This also coincides (of course) with the start of the "Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival" in his birthplace, Okemah,Oklahoma.

HBD Woody......and thanks. I'll sing "Hobo's Lullaby" for my boys tonight.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Happy (?) Birthday Woody
From: CarlZen
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 12:02 PM

"...When You've died and gone to heaven, There'll be no police there."

Happy Birthday and thanks for all.

Subject: Lyr Add: Broken "Okie"^^
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 01:59 PM

Broken 'Okie'

Live a life of 'Russian Roulette',

Running from that smoking gun.

To find the ones you leave behind you,

Ain't got nowhere to run.
. If life is a sad story,

Then his was too hard to bear.

If Woody's 'Bound For Glory',

I hope, we'll all meet him there.

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie,

And his 'Fascist Killing Machine'.

It's 'Hard Travelling', Woody,

Still following the dream

Just a broken 'Okie',

Who's rambling days are done.

Won't be riding no more freight trains,

But, 'Railroad Pete' travels on,

Pete's, a tough little critter,

The kind you'd seek out as a friend.

You can tell he ain't no quitter,

He'll see it through 'til' the end.

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie,

And his 'Fascist Killing Machine'.

It's 'Hard Travelling', Woody,

Still following the dream

Roger Gall

Happy Birthday Woody

Subject: RE: Happy (?) Birthday Woody
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 03:13 PM

Woody was always proud that he was born on Bastille Day -- a revolutionary from day 1.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Happy (?) Birthday Woody
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 07:00 PM

Din't know til this thread, my youngest, a rebel if there ever was one, shares the day with Woody.

Subject: RE: Happy (?) Birthday Woody
From: LEJ
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 09:16 PM

"Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too
and to all the good people who traveled with you
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
who came with the dust and are gone on the wind" As long as we keep his music alive, he'll go on. Happy Birthday Woody.

Subject: RE: Happy (?) Birthday Woody
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Date: 14 Jul 99 - 09:18 PM