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Strategies & Market Trends : Tragically Hip Koolaid Stand
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To: Lost1 who started this subject11/23/2000 10:25:58 PM
From: Lost1  Read Replies (2) of 604
 
Happy Thanksgiving! this song for Woody Guthrie by Willis Alan Ramsey is one of the best IMO...to hear it click on "listen" at this link
Woody was in fact the embodiment of the USA in a era now gone

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lyrics

BOY FROM OKLAHOMA

Home Travelin’ across the country
playin’ on the circuit line
sometimes I think about a man
who was here before my time.

Named for the 28th president
with a Guthrie tacked to the end.
born in Okemah shoes
with the Dust Bowl blues,
a friend of the working man.

Now he wasn’t partial to New York buildings
that tried to touch the sky
Or West Virginia coal mines that took so many lives
Or the way they drove the migrant workers
back over into Mexico way.
and the scabs they run
when they heard he’d come
and the bosses started to pray.

Chorus:
Just a boy from Oklahoma
on an endless one-night stand
wan’drin’ and ramblin’
and driftin’ with the midnight sand.
He played the blues and the ballads
and all that came between
his heart was in the Union
and his soul was reachin’ out
for the servant’s dream.

Now I was talking to a man that met him
in a bar near Clovis town.
He said the whole place was a-shakin’
as they was passing his songs around.
In between the tunes he asked him
where he’d be when the morrow came
He said through his grin,
“I put my thumb in the wind
and I’m off down the road again.”

“I’m just a boy from Oklahoma
on an endless one-night stand
I wander and I ramble
and I drift with the midnight sand.
I play the blues and the ballads
and all that comes between
my heart is in the Union
and my soul is reachin’ out
for the servant’s dream.”

Now you know that Woody Guthrie
Is dead and buried in the ground
Sometimes I sing his songs
and I get to thinkin’ that he’s still around.
I’ll hold that his fires everlastin’
I’ll testify that his course was run true
and the ramblin’ man’s ris’
and the kingdom’s his
but his songs are for me and you.
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