If they don’t rhyme a tall, well, then it’s prose, and all of the college boys will study on it for a couple of hundred years, and because they cain’t make heads nor tails of it, they’ll swear you’re a natural born song writer, maybe call you a natural born genius. They don’t even have to rhyme to suit me. The plainer it is the easier it is, and the easier it is, the better it is-and the words don’t even have to be spelt right. Music transcribed and edited and with a new afterword by Pete Seeger. 'He taught me how to sing in saloons, how to. 'I went out west with Woody,' says Seeger. Today you’re a better songbird than you was yesterday, ’cause you know a little bit more, you seen a little bit more, and all you got to do is just park yourself under a shade tree, or maybe at a desk, if you still got a desk, and haul off and write down some way you think this old world could be fixed so’s it would be twice as level and half as steep. Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People Compiled by Alan Lomax, Notes on the songs by Woody Guthrie. The results were eventually published as a book: Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People.
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