This photo by Steve Susoyev–they garden on my patio.
WOODY GUTHRIE who in the Depression rode the freight trains and would stop in small towns and play his guitar in a bar or a cafe. When he was hungry he would beg for food. But he would always go to the poor section of town because he knew the rich would tell him to get a job and slam the door in his face, whereas the poor people would share what little food then had with him. Woody wrote in his journal on April 17th 1942: I never dread the day I will die/Because my sunset is somebody’s morning sky.” Woody became world famous with his folk songs, especially THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND. In the love song ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS TOUCH ME, he made an amazing leap to humanity from his songs about the poor and downtrodden.
I fully aim, to get my soul known again./ As the maniac, the saint, the sinner, the drinker, the thinker, the queer./ I am the works, the whole works
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