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Woodie Guthrie's New Years Resolution List, 1942
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Posted on 12/31/2013 12:52:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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This particular list, penned by the great Woody Guthrie in 1942 at the tender-but-just-wise-enough age of 30, is an absolute gem of humor, earnestness, and pure humanity.
"Take it easy, but take it."
Woodie Guthrie
To: Mrs. Don-o
The original dirty hippie
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posted on
12/31/2013 12:56:55 PM PST
by
turducken
To: Mrs. Don-o
I was just thinking of Woodie Guthrie today. The song I couldn’t remember was “This Land is Your Land.” It’s a convoluted story that wanders through “Doctor Who” and my childhood in California in the 70s.
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posted on
12/31/2013 12:58:01 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
To: turducken
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
9. Wear clean clothes look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
I wish I could get my kids to do all this ... also “Change underwear,” but that’s probably included in #9.
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posted on
12/31/2013 12:59:56 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
To: Tax-chick
The song I couldnt remember was This Land is Your Land. The Communist national anthem, written and performed by an authentic Communist. How easily we were seduced.
To: Mrs. Don-o
It’s amazing that someone could have so many of the clues and still reach all the wrong conclusions.
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:17:42 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
С Новым годом, Comrade Guthrie!
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:19:15 PM PST
by
Fiji Hill
To: Bernard Marx
*shrug*
I always thought it was very Manifest Destiny, “This land was made for you and me.”
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:19:46 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Guthrie was a philosophical communist. While Guthrie claimed to have joined the American Communist Party, there is no conclusive evidence that he ever did. What he did do was write 174 columns under the title of Woody Sez for the Communist Party newspaper, The Daily Worker. Among these columns, he heaped praise upon Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, even defending Stalins unprovoked invasion of Poland in 1939!I have no respect for him.
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:22:50 PM PST
by
ohiobushman
( If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?)
To: don-o
Mrs. Don-o loves Don-o.
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:23:14 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
To: Bernard Marx; Tax-chick
I prefer the gospel song whose melody Comrade Guthrie ripped off when he wrote "This Land":
The Fire Song--The Carter Family
To: Bernard Marx
Yet today, Guthrie would be far to the right of many Republicans.
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:24:42 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Tax-chick
“Turn Underwear Inside Out When Needed.”
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:25:22 PM PST
by
JaguarXKE
(1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
To: Mrs. Don-o
27. Help win war beat fascism It's a pretty safe bet that Comrade Woody's list of New Years resolutions for 1941 contained nothing whatsoever about beating fascism.
To: turducken
Hippie? I dunno. Had a wife and 3 kids, didn't do drugs, and a regular job.
Kept clean, too, for a working man.
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:27:45 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Praise God from Whom all blessings flow, / Praise Him all people here below.)
To: JaguarXKE
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:29:13 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
To: Bernard Marx
I read the lyrics and don’t find reference to communist ideology written therein. What are you talking about? (must have missed it somewhere)
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:30:34 PM PST
by
Let_It_Be_So
(Once you see the Truth, you cannot "unsee" it, no matter how hard you may try.)
To: Fiji Hill
Never heard that, thanks for posting.
I still don’t think there’s anything Communist in the lyrics of “This Land is Your Land.”
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:32:38 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
To: Fiji Hill
You nailed it! 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.
After June 22nd, the commies in America began chanting “The Yanks Are Not Coming Too Late!!” and the alliance with “our heroic Soviet ally” was a matter of Party discipline while Comrade Woody inscribed his guitar with “This Machine Kills Fascists!” and hit the road for the war effort.
Since 1967 Woody Guthrie has been First Peoples’ Commissar of Soviet Hell.
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:40:22 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: elcid1970
Since 1967 Woody Guthrie has been First Peoples Commissar of Soviet Hell.I see what you did there. (In the Kingston Trio version.) My mother was into folk music in the 70s.
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posted on
12/31/2013 1:44:16 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The superpowers ascribed to "feminists" make me wish I was one.)
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