Woody Guthrie - American Radical - The Orange Mane

Blart · 07-04-2012, 01:20 PM

Civil rights, freedom of speech activist, and socialist pal Woody Guthrie is honored by Google for 4th of July,

and Democracy Now has an entire show on him,

Here's his little song about copyrights,

Quote:

“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

mhgaffney · 07-05-2012, 12:53 PM

Woody had a "bumper sticker" on his guitar that read:

THIS GUITAR KILLS FASCISTS

Well said, Woody.

Requiem · 07-05-2012, 12:55 PM

My guitar says "Gas is high."

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07-05-2012, 12:53 PM	#2
mhgaffney Ring of Famer Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 9,764	Woody had a "bumper sticker" on his guitar that read: THIS GUITAR KILLS FASCISTS Well said, Woody.

07-05-2012, 12:55 PM	#3
Requiem ~~~ ~ ~ ~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Earth Division Posts: 19,515 Adopt-a-Bronco: Gilgamesh	My guitar says "Gas is high."