Mean Talking Blues - Woody Guthrie

[Creaturefeature96sxe]

Why is woody guthrie not in our history books?

[geosotir3ay]

@Creaturefeature96sxe is he not

[tasedlak]

@Creaturefeature96sxe

He's in the only U.S. history book I pay attention to, Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of The United States.' Guthrie actually inspired Zinn's work. I believe the song Zinn heard was 'Ludlow Massacre,' and, as a history major, Zinn thought, 'Why haven't I heard of the Ludlow Massacre? Why haven't I heard of Woody Guthrie?' Then Zinn wrote a U.S. history book that included those things, our history, the people's history. The rest is just rich man propaganda.

[trilobright]

@Creaturefeature96sxe

I was lucky enough to have my senior high school history book be Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Thank God I went to a progressive Catholic school where they were allowed to teach the truth about history.

[feomotely]

Republican campaign song.

[thenumber331]

One person thinks Woody was mean.

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

sounds like the story of a rich man, maybe that elite 5% that rule the usa now

[sanfransardine]

Well, if I can get the fat to hatin' the lean

That'd tickle me more than anything I've seen,

Then get the colors to fightin' one another,

And friend against friend, and brother... and sister against brother,

That'll be just it.

[physicalKinetics]

i couldn't stand to see you in a house big so nice.

i'd like to keep you in that rotten hole there all full of bugs and lice,

roaches, ternimites, sand fleas, tater bugs, grub worms, stingerees,

vinagaroons, t'rantulers, spiders, childs of the earth, ticks and blowflies.

these is all of my little angels! helps me to do the best part of my meanness.

And mosquiters...

[TransverseWaves]

First rapper! Keep it hood, Woody! :)

[lookatmycommentplz]

@TransverseWaves Woody, with da hoody, in da hood... wood...

[tasedlak]

@TransverseWaves

Actually, the slaves sang rhymes, predating Woody. Nas credited them with helping give birth to hip hop on 'Who Killed It?' from his '06 album, 'Hip Hop Is Dead.'

[TransverseWaves]

@tasedlak Haha, I was just trying to be funny, bro. Obviously you didn't think it was. I'm also quite sure there were rhymes pre-dating slaves

[Eddybearz]

Ive been looking for this song for years. Thank you.

[Grimace3076]

@Eddybearz

Me too

[Zadfrac]

where are the woody's of today? we need someone like him right now. love this stuff.

[peadge01]

This is a way different version than the one I have from Woody Guthrie's Poor Boy album (Folkways FTS 31010). Some extra verses in this one! Thanks! :-)

[justinmasonful]

if i ever done a good deed, i sorry of it. Golden

[jennabeanable]

Because God likes unions and I hate God!

[geosotir3ay]

@jennabeanable whos god

[trampinhobo]

This song kills me, what a great song

[Tunnelof]

Thanks,love this music very much!

[ArroganceClause]

coolest song ever

[fisty37]

thanks Woody you were the best....

[silverpoundcans]

the original hater! hahahaha sick!!!! i love it!!!

[tobiasaurusrex]

@silverpoundcans He's actually singing about the people who'd beat him and his friends, the bosses of the people who'd beat him and his friends, and the people who want more than their share, who'd exploit people and demand they be grateful for the opportunity. Today we call them banksters.

[gringoflamenco]

Biting satire from Woody, priceless. No vote, no union, no voice. A mean society, a mean and rigged economic system. Foreclosures? Homeless? Jobless? Too f-in bad. We're just plain mean

[slate42]

extremely well said gringo

[nyjeen4]

thanks for uploading. you da bestttt

[breathinghearts]

too funny :))))))))))))