797. America First (Mr Charlie Lindbergh) - (Woody Guthrie)

[JBurdoo]

My dad just showed me the original of this. Interesting. Lindbergh actually flew several combat missions in the Pacific during WWII -- probably out of racism rather than anti-fascism...

[raymondcrooke]

@JBurdoo Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you liked this one.

[sluggo06]

I'm from okemah

[gibbycorby]

your good..get on tour..you'll have a laugh..and me n loads of friends could realy get into your strong powerfull stuff

[raymondcrooke]

As an amateur folksinger, I don't think there's much chance of that! Thanks for the suggestion though.

[antjone]

I'm a Brit born 30 years after the events in the song, but I still love it. Great lesson in lyric-writing.

Guthrie's contempt shines through for the monster Lindy has become.

I can't quite make out the last chord:

D-G-D then what? I know I should be able to work it out, but hey, I like lyrics more....

I'll give it a run at the local folk night if you explain this last bit.

\Word.

[raymondcrooke]

A7 then D

The chords and lyrics of my songs are on my website: raymondcrookeDOTcom

Click on "My Folk Songs", then "Singer-SongWriters", then "Woody Guthrie" and you'll find this one.

[antjone]

Ahhh! I tried Amaj without success, should have persevered!

Thanks very much!

[raymond52044]

I am American and have never heard this. Line about John L. Lewis daughters was interesting. So did Woody and Pete get their orders from the Communist International?

[raymondcrooke]

It's not one of Woody's best known songs, and obviously rather dated as it comments on events at that time. Nice tune though.

[rhthesinner]

Great song. A new one to me. I need to expand my Woody Guthrie collection. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[raymondcrooke]

You're welcome. It's always worth expanding our Woody Guthrie collection. He wrote a lot of great songs.

[bios36]

I think we owe Woodie alot of things we take for granted today, a wonderful cover Ray

Cheers!

Rick

[raymondcrooke]

A great man. I agree we owe him a lot. Thanks for your comment, Rick.

[marcoacca]

Wonderful work, Raymond. Ciao, Marco

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks once again for your support, Marco.

[paulbnoble]

one of my favorires!

[raymondcrooke]

Quite a catchy song. Thanks for dropping by.

[railmogul2]

Great job. Sounds a lot like "Cannonball Blues"

[raymondcrooke]

It is basically the same tune. Woody often set his lyrics to Carter family melodies.

[blinddrunkal]

Great performance again, Raymond......I'm surprised that I hadn't heard that song before, powerful! All the best :-) Alan

[raymondcrooke]

hanks, Alan. He wrote so many songs. I'm sure there are still plenty I haven't heard.

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks, Travis. Woody certainly passed on a lot of interesting history,

[TravisTricky]

Great bit of history in this tune, similar to most of Woody's tunes you share with us. Thanks for sharing Raymond!