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Woodie Guthrie's New Years Resolution List, 1942
Business Insider ^ | Dec. 31, 1941 /Dec. 27, 2013 | Woody Guthrie

Posted on 12/31/2013 12:52:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o

If you're having trouble nailing down your New Year's resolutions, here's a good place to start.

Seventy years ago, American folk legend Woody Guthrie scribbled in his journal a list of 33 tasks he would dedicate himself to in the coming year. According to WoodyGuthrie.org, he called them "Rulin's."

At age 31, he was in the prime of his life, with a wife and three kids, as well as a good deal of life experience, having survived the Dust Bowl to make it out to California.

As a result, it's a pretty unbeatable list. Check it out:


1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money 22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight

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To: Mrs. Don-o

I had a Great Uncle through marriage who grew up with Woody and was the same age.

I recall someone asking him about Woody and what kind of guy he was.

He thought for a few seconds and then said: “He was just plain sorry”.


41 posted on 12/31/2013 2:55:37 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: elcid1970
Until Hitler broke his nonagression pact with Stalin & invaded the USSR in June 1941, Guthrie was a good little commie like all the others who chanted “The Yanks Are Not Coming!” & preached strict isolationism.

True, but incomplete. Up to August 1939 commies around the world preached anti-fascism.

Hitler and Stalin signed their pact and commies abruptly switched their POV, only to switch back less than two years later.

42 posted on 12/31/2013 3:01:45 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Fiji Hill

Yeah, and if I had a hammer, Peter, Paul, and Mary would have been in the morgue.

I’ll give Woody a bit of a pass, without him there would have been no “The Ballad of Ruben Clamzo and His Strange Daughter in the Key of A”.


43 posted on 12/31/2013 3:05:39 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Fiji Hill

Amen, brother. When the World’s on Fire. A Pentecostal song arranged by AP Carter with Maybelle Carter on guitar.

Guthrie openly said he used Carter Family “chuch house licks” in his songs.

May belle Carter was the genius of guitar upon whose shouder’s Guthrie stood. AP Carter was a genius at arrangement and lyrics.

I like Guthrie’s music but after discovering the Carter Family came to a different understanding of it.

Guthrie was leftist and wrote worker’s polemic.

But interestingly, at that time American values were still so entrenched that any of hs songs were as much about Ameican individualism as the worker’s struggle.

He also sang songs about fighting for your land as long as there are bullets in your guns.


44 posted on 12/31/2013 3:08:30 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: elcid1970; Tax-chick

Is there anyone here with the screen name “Counter-revolutionary cad”?


45 posted on 12/31/2013 3:14:25 PM PST by omega4412
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I'm trying # 26

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46 posted on 12/31/2013 3:35:22 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
19. Keep hoping machine running

Guthrie wrote a song called "hoping machine" bet never put it to music. Super group New Multitudes (Jim James, Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, and Anders Parker) do a good job of putting it to music along with other stuff Guthrie wrote. You can look them up on youtube. happy new year!

47 posted on 12/31/2013 3:37:10 PM PST by lwd
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Jack Hammer’s One and Only New Year’s Resolution - 2014: Never, ever waste a drop of Scotch.


48 posted on 12/31/2013 4:06:33 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Good penmanship


49 posted on 12/31/2013 4:12:33 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: left that other site

Sorry. I even googled it. Did read far enough.


50 posted on 12/31/2013 4:21:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No problem!

Both were Great! :-) Happy new Year!


51 posted on 12/31/2013 4:32:16 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: omega4412

Not that I’ve noticed. When I was a little girl, I thought it was “counter-revolutionary cats.”


52 posted on 12/31/2013 5:28:26 PM PST by Tax-chick (The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The ONLY people who used the word “fascists” in the 50’s/60’s were Communists.


53 posted on 12/31/2013 5:34:07 PM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: elcid1970
I'm astonished at the not-Godpleasing malice of this., We are not permitted to say anyone is definitively in hell --- not Judas Iscariot, not even Hitler or Stalin, and not Woody Guthrie.

There is a very good reason why the Church will canonize, but will not demonize.

Note well, I am not saying that one cannot judge ideologies as good or evil, words as true or false, actions as right or wrong. But the souls of men and the extent of the Divine Wisdom are beyond your purview, and mine.

54 posted on 12/31/2013 5:48:20 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
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To: minnesota_bound
I noticed that, too. It takes attention to detail.

Happy New Year to you, minnesota_bound!

55 posted on 12/31/2013 6:06:50 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
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To: TurboZamboni
Uh... just.... what... are they doing?

I've heard "the fur was flying." But the hair?

56 posted on 12/31/2013 6:10:09 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

See post 20. She caught my Kingston Trio line.

True, no one on Earth can say who’s in Hell, although proofs can be gathered that someone’s in Heaven.

BTW, the last line of that K.T. ballad was, “If you want to be a Bolshevik, you’ll have to go to Hell.”

Any doubts as to where J.V. Stalin is, now?


57 posted on 12/31/2013 6:17:10 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: omega4412

“Counter-revolutionary cad”?

Sure wish I’d thought of it!

;^)


58 posted on 12/31/2013 6:19:06 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: ifinnegan
Guthrie was leftist and wrote worker’s polemic.

Leftism now is about the un-employed and gov-employed no'bility taking wealth and power from the workers. Conservatism is about the worker's struggle. Arguably Guthrie was a conservative. Workers of the world unite!

59 posted on 12/31/2013 6:21:56 PM PST by Reeses
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To: lwd
Hoping Machine
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Jay Farrar

Don’t let anything knock your props out from under you
Always keep your mind clear, let your plans come out of mistakes
These are the plans and nothing can tear down
Made out of things that have already been torn down

Whatever you do, wherever you go

Don’t lose your grip on life and that means
Don’t let any earthy calamity
knock your dreamer and your hoping machine

Music is the language of the mind that travels
Carries the key to the laws of time and space
Lonesome train whistling down the silent wail of wind
Life is the sound, creation has been a song

Whatever you do, wherever you go
Don’t lose your grip on life and that means
Don’t let any earthy calamity
knock your dreamer and your hoping machine
Out of order

Quick to manufacture their schemes and ideas
Faster than any turn a tide can wash you out
Word is the music and the people are the song
Tomorrows chances feel like a singing god

Whatever you do, wherever you go
Don’t lose your grip on life and that means
Don’t let any earthy calamity
knock your dreamer and your hoping machine
Out of order


Thanks for this, LWD

Happy New Year to you and yours!

60 posted on 12/31/2013 6:26:28 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
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