For What It's Worth and Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Woody Guthrie's " I'm Shipping off to Boston" sung and made famous by the Dropkick Murphys
How about Woody Guthrie's " This Land is your land " read this article - I never knew it was a protest song !!
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/nat … r-Land.pdf
Nora Guthrie was Woody;s daughter - she said this about the song.........
Nora Guthrie responded to an inquiry, saying, “Here’s what I cherish, and what the song means
to all of us. One of the most visionary moments, when the song was genuinely, and cosmically,
‘fulfilled,’ was at President Barack Obama’s inaugural concert. America was singing at that
moment.”
That moment had embraced, she wrote:
- Pete Seeger, a blacklisted musician for 25 years, center stage, leading the country.
- Singing to the first African American elected President of the USA.
- Accompanied by Bruce Springsteen--the biggest rock star in the USA.
- Backed by an African American gospel choir of young people.
- With an Indigenous percussionist.
- With the biggest sing-along audience of millions of Americans--who ALL knew the words to
the song! What other song could have possibly fit the bill? None.
Nora added, “As I watched it, crying, I looked up and said to my dad, ‘So THIS is why you
wrote it!’ It was as if the moment was made for the song, and vice versa. I don’t know if that
kind of moment in music history will ever happen again.”
