Guthrie Poems - Poems about Guthrie

...Woodrow Wilson Guthrie sang about the people who lived roughly he wrote and sang earthy songs a plenty and he was friend and mentor to many ......

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...Alice passed away this week, But it would just be wrong If a Turkey Day went by without Us listening to her song*. For Arlo Guthrie wrote a tale About her restaurant And he started a traditio......

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...If my light should fade tonight I will miss the little versions of us and the improvements to the world they will inevitably make, their silliness, their growth from nothing to everything. I will m......

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... Kalamazoo kids went off to war leaving giddy gals to go forward in fractured factories ~from music to munitions gay guitars would wait until battered boys came hurriedly home... or would the......

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...Listening to the Boss Singing The Ghost of Tom Joad, Imagining the Okies as they Travelled their Desolation Road. Word Pictures by Steinbeck, Dust Bowl Ballads by Guthrie, Green Pastures Of P......

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...As a child of the late1940s, Heard Skiffle, Folk, Rock and Roll Loved country and the blues Loved the sound of soul. Heard, Donegan, Perkins, Presley, Make all those blues based hits Heard Jer......

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...John Steinbeck wrote the story Of the Okie family Joad as they Travelled down their bleak Hard California bound road. Tractored out by the Cats After the bank had foreclosed, No feelings of we......

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...Here in Chicago, Illinois the landscape is flat No hill or vale to break the monotony A concrete jungle downtown, surrounded by highway Leading to endless cornfields south of the metropolis ......

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...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......

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...Remember when "Suzie" wore her dresses tight When Elton John was Singin' 'bout "Saturday night" Singin' bout the rocket man and his old blue jeans While Arlo Guthrie sung a song 'bout a train ......

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... “The Wolf’s Pockets” Virginia knows what’s written in the mass of a rock the heaviness of words not soluble anchored to life that does ......

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...The unicorn magician with the slanted eye Let out a peep, a whistle, a plaintive sigh. Alerting two idiot villagers, name of Guthrie and Tie. That things were changing for the worst, bye and bye ......

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...You can get anywhere you want On Hannibal's elephant You can get anywhere you want On Hannibal's elephant Climb right up, ride on her back Take you 'bout a mile down the railroad track You can ......

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...Bob Dylan is great And he is real mate He started out like Woodie Guthrie But only roughly He told us the answer was in the wind He was all so thin He went electric and creative It went ......

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...Last Train Runnin’ For Bob Dylan The nickel-plated moon howled outside my window like a bullet missing from its sleeve A lyric tore through the autumn ......

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