Woody Guthrie Short Quotes

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Pampa was a Texas boom town and wilder than a woodchuck.

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Life's pretty tough... you're lucky if you live through it.

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Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen.

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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

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Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

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One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

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I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

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California is a garden of Eden A paradise to live in or see But believe it or not You won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do-re-mi

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Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

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As I go walking this ribbon of highway
I see above me the endless skyway
And all around me the wind keeps saying:
This land is made for you and me.

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This land is your land, this land is my land,
From California to the New York Island.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.

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One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple
By the Relief Office I saw my people —
As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if
God blessed America for me.

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Well, it's always we ramble, that river and I, All along your green valley I'll work till I die, My land I'll defend with my life, if it be, 'Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free.

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I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes
I slept on the ground in the light of the moon
On the edge of the city you'll see us and then
We come with the dust and we go with the wind

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