How To Use Woody guthrie In A Sentence
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( "Some will rob you with a six-gun/Some with a fountain pen," go the words to Woody Guthrie's ballad "Pretty Boy Floyd.")
Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer
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When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs.
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While Woody Guthrie was a rambling, gambling, hard-travelling, hard-drinking guy who collected a handful of wives in his time and whose guitar "killed fascists", his travelling partner, Pete Seeger was a teetotalling Quaker Unitarian pacifist who married a Japanese girl during World War Two and did time briefly for refusing to name names to Joe McCarthy.
"This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It To Surrender"
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Woody Guthrie once sang that “some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.”
Rebecca Solnit: When the Media Is the Disaster: Covering Haiti
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Woody Guthrie was one of a long line of folk songsters going back at least to Joe Hill, identifying with the poor and exploited.
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Rockabilly and doo-wop provide the sturdy structures, with a nod to the skiffle of the Quarrymen as he sings "Long, long lost John" over the fade of "I'm Losing You", in a deliberate echo of Lonnie Donegan's version of a song borrowed from Woody Guthrie.
The legacy of John Lennon
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Socialist poetry: two words to conjure images of earnest but artless efforts by would-be Woody Guthries.
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Claire was content just driving with her husband and daughter together in their separate thoughts, but the silence was short-lived, because Alice began to sing Woody Guthrie songs.
So Much Pretty
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In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture.
WeLove-music
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In the winter of 1940, a twenty-seven-year-old hillbilly singer named Woody Guthrie headed east to New York City.
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Woody Guthrie was a hero to a generation of folk musicians, Bob Dylan among them.
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I'm as yet unpublished, but of course already worried about the ins-and-outs of PR, the future of publishing, and the bottom line ... the do-re-mi, to quote Woody Guthrie!
Writers & Money: What the h*ll are we doing?
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Sig Rogich, a Nevada adman who worked in George H.W. Bush's White House, and who, like most establishment Republicans in Nevada, is backing Reid over Sharron Angle, told me that during many evenings at his house he and Reid have relaxed to old Woody Guthrie songs on the CD player -- "poignant songs about society and the poor.
Alec Baldwin: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle, and the Role of Government in America
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The legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie was one of his first influences.