Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 06:52 PM

See my post above for a recording source.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: GUEST,Katie Bug
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 12:40 PM

Can anyone get a recording of the song? I need it for a project, abnd i cant seem to find it anywhere.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 03:43 PM

The best collection of Woody's songs is in the NEARLY COMPLETE WOODY GUTHRIE SONGBOOK published in '62 or '63. It's been out of print since then and the last time I talked to Nora Guthrie she told me that their are too many mistakes in it to reprint it(which I think is a shame). I just found a copy on e-bay for 20 pounds in th UK, and I'm e-mailing the guy who owns it to see how much the shipping will be. By the way, Dylan recorded MRS ROOSEVELT on the Guthrie Memorial albums in '68.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 05:14 PM

Mine doesn't have a copyright date, but it is edited by Judy Bell and Nora Guthrie. It is loaded with Woody's drawings and photo's.

Mick

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: emjay
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:44 PM

The Woody Guthrie Songbook I have, copyright 1976, edited by Harold Leventhal and Marjorie Guthrie -- designed by Will Hopkins -- does have the song in it, and a lot of others, good ones, of course. It also has great photographs, notes, stories.
It should be reprinted!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:41 PM

Seems to me I've heard another song that is very similar to this (on a different subject) that uses the same tune and the phrase "we sure was lucky" instead of "the world was lucky."
Can anybody clarify my partial recollection, or am I singing through my hat on this?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:07 AM

You will find a very nice recording of the song on an album titiled "Woodeye" by the Joel Rafael Band. The band perform in Oklahoma every year at the Woodie Guthrie Festival. They are a California group.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:25 AM

I just spent some time cruising the Woody Guthrie Foundation website listed above and couldn't fing it, so I popped an email off to the archivist to ask for background data, tune, etc, so we can compare it to what is in the DT. When I made the link above I didn't check out whether it was listed in the booke. I also checked an older copy of The Woody Guthrie Songbook in my collection. Not there either. I also took a look at the Sing Out Collected Reprints (both volumes).

I will let you know what I get back from the archives of the WGF.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 05:10 AM

I can't find the song in the current Hal Leonard Woody Guthrie Songbook that Mick linked to, and I doubt that it's available in any source that's still in print. The world needs a good Woody songbook, I think. I e-mailed a scan to Paul from an out-of-print book.
Is it an original tune, or did Woody get it from another song?
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: RE: Dear Mrs Roosevelt
From: Big Mick
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 07:38 PM

Here is where you get THE WOODY GUTHRIE SONGBOOK

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Dear Mrs Roosevelt
From: emjay
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 04:31 PM

The words and music are in the Woody Guthrie Songbook, copyright 1976. I don't recognize the tune and there is nothing in there that I could find naming its source. If you don't get it from anyone else, PM me.

Subject: Dear Mrs Roosevelt
From: GUEST,Paul L Shriver
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 03:22 PM

I need the Music (guitar or Piano notes) for the Woody Guthrie song, Dear Mrs Roosevelt--or at least information on what the tune might have been on which the song was written--it sounds familiar, but I cant place it. Whatever the music is or is from, I need it if possible in piano form, or a source where I might obtain it--reply to
[e-mail] Thanks