Who remembers this ?

[Ken in NJ]

Besides Ken N Tx ? He was around 40, I think when it came out :omg: :hide: :hide: :hide: :hide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE&feature=related

[poncho62]

A little before my time.....I liked Arlo Guthrie's stuff..........
I don't want a pickle, just wanna ride on my motorsickle"

:congrats:

[PaulChristenson]

It's really an angry left-wing protest song composed by the radical folk singer Woody Guthrie - written in the Depression as a riposte to Irving Berlin's God Bless America.

But those verses with a political message are now usually omitted
Guthrie protested class inequality in the final verses:

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?
As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
And on the sign there, It said "no trespassing." [In another version, the sign reads "Private Property"]
But on the other side, it didn't say nothing!
That side was made for you and me.
These verses were often omitted in subsequent recordings, sometimes by Guthrie himself.

As it they were from the youtube entry on this thread...

and Guthrie's most popular song has become an anthem of the right as well as the left.
It was big as a protest song during the Viet Nam Era. It's been recorded by everyone from Bing Crosby to Pete Seeger, and from Billy Bragg to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; and was even performed at President Bush's victory party in 2004.

[HydroHarold]

Starting out in the '50's on a pawn shop Regal flat top I always loved 3 chord songs.:ROF Most of Woody's songs were.

Excerpt of Woody's version of "Ramblin' Round",

The peach trees they are loaded,
The limbs are bending down,
I pick 'em all day for a dollar,
As I go a ramblin' 'round boys,
As I go a ramblin' 'round.

Sometimes the fruit gets rotten
And falls upon the ground,
There's a hungry mouth for every peach
As I go a ramblin' 'round boys,
As I go a ramblin' 'round.

My mother prayed that I would be
A man of some renown,
But I'm just a railroad bum
As I go a ramblin' 'round boys,
As I go a ramblin' 'round.

Stretching the Great Depression as far as it would go, to modernize the lyric the 'railroad bum' was replaced by 'refugee' in the later versions. Like the social protest song standards of the day it went right over the heads of the masses... Same kind of angry class warfare stuff what's his name "The Boss" guy sings today... Goes right over the heads of the smoking masses.

Let's hope it stays that way!:D

[sabrinafree]

Same kind of angry class warfare stuff what's his name "The Boss" guy sings today... Goes right over the heads of the smoking masses.

Let's hope it stays that way!:D
right after i watched the one ken posted, i watched this one (which has a little bit but not all of the missing verses):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc4BI5NWU&feature=related

[HydroHarold]

I can't listen to 'im... I know where his head has been and still is.:) Of course he does have a verrry trendy haircut!:ROF

[Durwood]

When he sings i like him but when he talks....turn it off already !:fing20: