Today in the Arizona Republic newspaper there was an article about a former track coach at a Phoenix High School that was he illegally and the great long arm of the arm had him deported back to Mexico. I'm sure Sheriff Joe is proud of his capture and deportation! I will copy and past the headline for the article! "Deportee Struggles to Readjust to Life Outside Phoenix." It doesn't matter if it's 1948 or 2012, this backward state that is full of Republicans has not moved forward one bit!
Regardless of one's political position on immigration, I believe the point of the song is that ALL those people who were killed in the plane wreck over Los Gatos Canyon were human beings. It is my understanding that there were 28 Mexican immigrants being deported back to the Mexican border as well as 4 white men (crew members I suppose). In all the radio reports at the time, only the 4 white men's names were mentioned. The "others" were referred to only as Deportees.
Immigration is not bad, and I say that as a Republican. I know people who turned out to be illegals, and were deported. God Bless them, but, you need to obey the law, and wait your turn, and come here and we will welcome you all with open arms.
@whubel why? wouldn't that be unfair? all americans should pay taxes...the only reason taxes are so high is because we have to pay for fat lazy americans who dont work
@musicluva13579 The problem is simply that we are fat, lazy, and greedy, but that's a problem with our character, which is not something that taxation helps in any way. I believe in an extremely generous level of distributive justice and I think poverty is a shame before God. But so long as you think our problems can be solved by whining about tax levels, you're always just going to be pitting yourself against the rich and powerful who are in charge, and that's a battle you'll never really win
@whubel The systemic problems with capitalism are with capitalism itself and it's financial structure. In Medieval times it was largely considered sinful to charge interest on a loan to someone in need. Now that's how the gears of the economy turn. That's not something which taxation can smooth over and make right, because your complaints about taxation will always be made towards a political system which is already run by the financial elite of capitalism, who also run the news-media.
@whubel The tax system is actually precisely the excuse which xenophobes make for anti-immigrationism- they argue that immigrants are welching off our welfare system. So the tax system generates an excuse for hatred.
@whubel That's not everybody. I am very generous and honest and know many people who are. I am in good shape and I exercise daily. Personally, I think that if the government was fair, they wouldn't let huge businesses hire illegals, which is what George Bush supports. The rich people are the fat, lazy, and greedy ones in this world.
@CSquaredTech well he's right in many cases. our clothing is grown on chinese labor. our electronics on japanese labor. southern usa farms run on mexican labor. our oranges are grown from brazilian labor. our tropical fruit is grown from latin american labor. the us would collapse without our foreign relations.
This song is a treasure. Woody's truth. Looking across the Rio Grande from Texas, I wonder how so many are misled to believe that the world is better off when divided into "us" and "them." In the Declaration of Independence, one of our forefathers' complaints against the tyranny of King George was: "He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither..."
This song is a treasure. Woody's truth. Looking across the Rio Grande from Texas, I wonder how so many are misled to believe that the world is better off when divided into "us" and "them." In the Declaration of Independence, one of our forefathers' complaints against the tyranny of King George was: "He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither..."
Why is the emphasis always on what the US should do? What about the leaders and countries from which these people flee for liveliehoods? At what point, in light of the unmitigated birth rates, lack of human rights and dignity, poor governance, does the onus of responsibility be laid at the feet of the despot governments who's poor vision has made problems for the rest of the world and it's peoples?
@callouschristian You're missing the point. Is there any reason why you should be treated with utter contempt whilst going through the process of arrest and deportation; you might then feel a little confused when the country that tells you you're not wanted, uses you're fellow countrymen and women as cheap labour to shovel your shit.
I say; Hell come on in my brothers of another color and mother...We're having a party and you're all invited. It's BYOB...and be sure to bring your women!...We love women and Beer!!!
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - Now isn't it really really really time for Immigration Reform??
@teapeasea Quoting just about the only most 'popular' constitutional phrase taught in government run brainwashing/dumbing-down public education is a tell-tale sign that you know little about the actual laws of your own government. Start slow, as the awakened liberal Cindy Sheehan has. Our country needs all of the sleeping liberals to awake and become fighters again. Where is the anti-war Left? Fighting to let anyone into our country to make us weaker? Supporting endless wars? Wake-up!
@lnsk If all the "sleeping liberals" share your views (and your condescending manner) America has no hope of ever becoming a socially responsible country.
@lnsk If it weren't for immigration, our national birthrate would be dropping just as it is in most European countries. We're a nation of immigrants, for the most part. Many who came here were thought of in the same way as the Mexicans are thought of now. Many came over in great numbers, uneducated & poor with a sizable number becoming criminal. (A cop friend of mine checked the arrest records from mid-nineteenth century & most of the names were Irish back then.) Eventually, they assimilate.
@teapeasea Immigration reform can only be in the manner to enforce the laws that are already in place-the ones that all legal immigrants to the US have honored. Do you really know what fiscal problems/emotional burdens have been placed on existing American citizens (yes, many LEGAL immigrants included) by the current lack of immigration enforcement?
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hey Arlo, why no song on Cesar Chavez marching to border in 1968 to protest unending massive influx of illegal immigrants depressing wages of farm workers in UFW members he was trying to organize?
immigration is a tax on the working poor here now and favored only by those that benefit from it like democrats and business that pocket profits and pass social costs to conmmunity. Over 5 billion people make less than mexicans, do we invite the world so phonies can feel good about themselves?
also during the beginning of the 19th century over 1 million mexicans were deported WHOSE FAMILY WERE BORN IN PLACES LIKE TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO , FOR GENERATIONS,
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WOW..... i think we should just ship them al back and never except any immagrants again...if u got problems in ur countyr sorry...U.S. has our own problems to worry about and we dont need a bunch of freakin border jumpers ruinin our great country
Nazi Germany blamed their economic problems on Jews and other minorities, like US fascists are today blaming immigrants. Trick the rich use make you look one way, while picking your back pocket. Don't fall for it, we the people, we are many they are few. Clinton in the 90s started beefing up the border because he knew US NAFTA policies would force wiped out Mexican farmers to emigrate here. Giant agri-business theft is all it is, like they did to small US farmers in the 1980s.
I disagree with the poster's premise that this song does not take a political point of view. It says that these are men and women, that labor is not a commodity, that there is something intrinsic in a man that makes him better than a shovel, a truck, or any other components of production.
If you look at history the US has opened it's borders during times of war to immigrants to come and work here and fill positions in factories, but then after wartime the borders were closed and workers were sent home. Our borders operate on a need based system which is absolutely unfair to the immigrant workers that come to the US and are exploited with insufficient payscales and stereotypical attitudes.
life is unfair, the imigrants know what they are getting into and agree to it. thats all im saying, is they know the risks and the consequences. its their choice, too.
@aaronmdutton I suppose you could say that to the people that jumped into the freezing ocean to escape the Titanic as she went down. It was their choice, they knew what they were getting into.
Do you know what is going on in Mexico these days? Thousands of people are disappearing at the hands of drug lords; anti-labor forces murder union organizers.
@VadroszaVendetta so our government's policy is set by the military-industrial-congressional-prison complex that's behind many other ills of society? Who would have ever guessed? Well, besides Dwight Eisenhower, I mean...
A year ago 32 Mexican men and woman were gathered in an immigration raid in my hometown in NJ. Within a month all were deported. Several of these fine people are friends, another 20, soccer acquaintances.
Rather than giving in to sadness I have been researching the history of immigration labor into the USA. For a direct Mexican connection tracing back to WWII, do a wiki or google search "Braceros Project" The coin to the issue of immigration has 2 sides. There is no room to harbor prejudice.
As one of the US-born farm workers who works with the migrants and with whom he is made to compete for jobs, I say: stop deportation! No more broken families, no more dead. Amnesty now!
And, while we're at it, shut down the School of the Americas, now WHINSEC, and stop the trade policies and support of tyrannical governments that force our southern brothers to seek opportunity here in the first place!
The owners of the big farms should be required to pay enough per hour to draw workers from legal American citizens. And if tomatoes cost $10.00 a pound, then that's what they cost!
It's like a slave owner explaining that if he has to pay workers, then clothes will be expensive.
What people don't realize is to what extent our own practices exacerbate the issues of illegal immigrants from Mexico. With Nafta and other trade agreements cheap corn can be pumped into Mexico, thus disenfranchising those Mexican farmers, causing them to look for new opportunities, in the land of opportunities. If we want to keep the immigrants out, we should stop pumping their economy with foreign goods that replace local goods.
This is such a difficult, painful issue. I know very many undocumented immigrants, most of whom are very good, hard working people. But, as a social and economic phenomena, progressives and conservatives alike have to acknowledge that it's destructive. The US cannot take in every poor person from the 3rd world without severely straining social services and infrastructure.
Well, it's not working so well in Europe. Europe has a lot of problems with huge slums full of immigrants, resentment from the native Europeans, and changing cultural landscape.
Now, me, I'd love it if all borders were gone and we didn't have states, but 'till then, it's a thorny problem. People don't like to feel like there's a dynamic away from their own dominance.
For me, I work in the feilds, sometimes alongside immigrants. I just wish all the ideologues would remember that they're people.
I love Dylan but Arlo speaks more truth. I grew up on Arlo, Dylan, Pete, and Woody, even though I am only 23. My father always sung me to sleep with these songs, he taught me what good music was!
I think we should all live where ever the hell we want. Who is anyone to tell anyone where they can or can't live. (i've always been a "think outside the box guy" ha ha)
The Mexicans need to stay out if they're illegal. There is a way to legally go across to America, so stop being lazy.
Thathoboman 2 days ago
Ten migrant farm workers died in a tragic road accident in Ontario on February 6, 2012. This song stands as an anthem to all migrant workers.
torontocarpenter 3 weeks ago
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1mparcher 1 month ago
Today in the Arizona Republic newspaper there was an article about a former track coach at a Phoenix High School that was he illegally and the great long arm of the arm had him deported back to Mexico. I'm sure Sheriff Joe is proud of his capture and deportation! I will copy and past the headline for the article! "Deportee Struggles to Readjust to Life Outside Phoenix." It doesn't matter if it's 1948 or 2012, this backward state that is full of Republicans has not moved forward one bit!
1mparcher 1 month ago
@1mparcher that's exactly why I found this. reposting to facebook. sucks :(
tamarafrenchesq 3 weeks ago
does anyone know when this hapend , what year ????
hatersrock14 3 months ago
@hatersrock14 1948 - see Wikipedia Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
jinjocat 3 months ago
@jinjocat oh okay thanks
hatersrock14 2 months ago
@hatersrock14 see New York Times, January 29, 1948
desertsongtv 1 month ago
And brought up to 2011.
You won't have a name if you vote remotely. All they will call you is Absentee.
When you park and lock it, put the key in your pocket. And you get a card that will call you Bailee.
If they're blue and fded, don't feel degraded. those aren't jeans, they're dungarees.
Indyrail 4 months ago
Employees and employers need to respect the laws of America. There is no excuse for criminal action. There is no cure for willful ignorance. Period.
LarryHarveyMusic 5 months ago
Very sad. I feel for these people. May they continue resting in peace.
Vega964 5 months ago
Regardless of one's political position on immigration, I believe the point of the song is that ALL those people who were killed in the plane wreck over Los Gatos Canyon were human beings. It is my understanding that there were 28 Mexican immigrants being deported back to the Mexican border as well as 4 white men (crew members I suppose). In all the radio reports at the time, only the 4 white men's names were mentioned. The "others" were referred to only as Deportees.
1mscoyote 5 months ago
Did the Mayflower passengers stood un line?
MrPerceus 6 months ago
Immigration is not bad, and I say that as a Republican. I know people who turned out to be illegals, and were deported. God Bless them, but, you need to obey the law, and wait your turn, and come here and we will welcome you all with open arms.
HalfBornUnicornFetus 6 months ago
The problem is not immigrants, legal or illegal, workers & consumers. It's Republicans!
weckalini 7 months ago 7
true story......my fathers father did the same.....cheers......cheers to everyone....
nrvzbrkdn81 7 months ago
Thankyou
Sexy11883 7 months ago
Great song. All illegals should be welcomed as long as they are paying taxes.
musicluva13579 9 months ago
@musicluva13579 Or we could just welcome them AND not have taxes
whubel 7 months ago
@whubel why? wouldn't that be unfair? all americans should pay taxes...the only reason taxes are so high is because we have to pay for fat lazy americans who dont work
musicluva13579 7 months ago
@musicluva13579 The problem is simply that we are fat, lazy, and greedy, but that's a problem with our character, which is not something that taxation helps in any way. I believe in an extremely generous level of distributive justice and I think poverty is a shame before God. But so long as you think our problems can be solved by whining about tax levels, you're always just going to be pitting yourself against the rich and powerful who are in charge, and that's a battle you'll never really win
whubel 7 months ago
@whubel The systemic problems with capitalism are with capitalism itself and it's financial structure. In Medieval times it was largely considered sinful to charge interest on a loan to someone in need. Now that's how the gears of the economy turn. That's not something which taxation can smooth over and make right, because your complaints about taxation will always be made towards a political system which is already run by the financial elite of capitalism, who also run the news-media.
whubel 7 months ago
@whubel The tax system is actually precisely the excuse which xenophobes make for anti-immigrationism- they argue that immigrants are welching off our welfare system. So the tax system generates an excuse for hatred.
whubel 7 months ago
@whubel That's not everybody. I am very generous and honest and know many people who are. I am in good shape and I exercise daily. Personally, I think that if the government was fair, they wouldn't let huge businesses hire illegals, which is what George Bush supports. The rich people are the fat, lazy, and greedy ones in this world.
musicluva13579 7 months ago 2
thanks for posting.....thanks Mr. Guthrie to reminds us.......gracias...obrigado!
PostoTres 10 months ago
Great Song. Solidarity Forever with those who are in need.
mirkobruner 10 months ago
something about arlo guthrie singing this song makes me want to listen to it over and over again
Tomcos57 10 months ago
The Album was called Hobo's Lullaby. I bought it on 8 track in December of 1972.
TheRigger45 10 months ago
The First World exists by sucking wealth from the Third World.
BattousaiOfChaos 10 months ago
@BattousaiOfChaos not true at all
CSquaredTech 10 months ago
@CSquaredTech Please explain how that's not true.
mzooky 10 months ago
@CSquaredTech well he's right in many cases. our clothing is grown on chinese labor. our electronics on japanese labor. southern usa farms run on mexican labor. our oranges are grown from brazilian labor. our tropical fruit is grown from latin american labor. the us would collapse without our foreign relations.
musicluva13579 9 months ago
Fine strings by Nick DeCaro.
chriscanalos 11 months ago
Lo siento por America.
sharonb314 1 year ago
Very good video,worthy of this beautiful song, both thumbs up !!
vaskes123 1 year ago
We are a nation of immigrants .....
Who's gonna pull up the ladder??
Better think twice.
J.C.
375GTB 1 year ago
This song is a treasure. Woody's truth. Looking across the Rio Grande from Texas, I wonder how so many are misled to believe that the world is better off when divided into "us" and "them." In the Declaration of Independence, one of our forefathers' complaints against the tyranny of King George was: "He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither..."
emailtheshaws 1 year ago 2
This song is a treasure. Woody's truth. Looking across the Rio Grande from Texas, I wonder how so many are misled to believe that the world is better off when divided into "us" and "them." In the Declaration of Independence, one of our forefathers' complaints against the tyranny of King George was: "He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither..."
emailtheshaws 1 year ago
Why is the emphasis always on what the US should do? What about the leaders and countries from which these people flee for liveliehoods? At what point, in light of the unmitigated birth rates, lack of human rights and dignity, poor governance, does the onus of responsibility be laid at the feet of the despot governments who's poor vision has made problems for the rest of the world and it's peoples?
callouschristian 1 year ago
@callouschristian You're missing the point. Is there any reason why you should be treated with utter contempt whilst going through the process of arrest and deportation; you might then feel a little confused when the country that tells you you're not wanted, uses you're fellow countrymen and women as cheap labour to shovel your shit.
mink61 11 months ago
"you won't have a name when you ride the big airplane"
revpaperboy 1 year ago
I say; Hell come on in my brothers of another color and mother...We're having a party and you're all invited. It's BYOB...and be sure to bring your women!...We love women and Beer!!!
MrJojogun 1 year ago
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - Now isn't it really really really time for Immigration Reform??
Happy 4th of July, all.
teapeasea 1 year ago
@teapeasea Quoting just about the only most 'popular' constitutional phrase taught in government run brainwashing/dumbing-down public education is a tell-tale sign that you know little about the actual laws of your own government. Start slow, as the awakened liberal Cindy Sheehan has. Our country needs all of the sleeping liberals to awake and become fighters again. Where is the anti-war Left? Fighting to let anyone into our country to make us weaker? Supporting endless wars? Wake-up!
lnsk 1 year ago
@lnsk If all the "sleeping liberals" share your views (and your condescending manner) America has no hope of ever becoming a socially responsible country.
bingotea1 1 year ago
@lnsk If it weren't for immigration, our national birthrate would be dropping just as it is in most European countries. We're a nation of immigrants, for the most part. Many who came here were thought of in the same way as the Mexicans are thought of now. Many came over in great numbers, uneducated & poor with a sizable number becoming criminal. (A cop friend of mine checked the arrest records from mid-nineteenth century & most of the names were Irish back then.) Eventually, they assimilate.
mmedefarge 1 year ago
@teapeasea Immigration reform can only be in the manner to enforce the laws that are already in place-the ones that all legal immigrants to the US have honored. Do you really know what fiscal problems/emotional burdens have been placed on existing American citizens (yes, many LEGAL immigrants included) by the current lack of immigration enforcement?
lnsk 1 year ago
So, mrhulott01 - are you going to go work picking lettuce or fruit? Cleaning toilets in a hotel?
antiquefeminist 1 year ago
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hey Arlo, why no song on Cesar Chavez marching to border in 1968 to protest unending massive influx of illegal immigrants depressing wages of farm workers in UFW members he was trying to organize?
immigration is a tax on the working poor here now and favored only by those that benefit from it like democrats and business that pocket profits and pass social costs to conmmunity. Over 5 billion people make less than mexicans, do we invite the world so phonies can feel good about themselves?
mrhulot101 1 year ago
beautiful arlos heart is endless!
MsSapphire87 1 year ago
also during the beginning of the 19th century over 1 million mexicans were deported WHOSE FAMILY WERE BORN IN PLACES LIKE TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO , FOR GENERATIONS,
fruitbearer 1 year ago 3
people dying because of a plant God put here for us to use, I think they should do away with the border completely , anarchy is the only answer
fruitbearer 1 year ago 2
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WOW..... i think we should just ship them al back and never except any immagrants again...if u got problems in ur countyr sorry...U.S. has our own problems to worry about and we dont need a bunch of freakin border jumpers ruinin our great country
Blomper123 1 year ago
Thanks...new song to me, and you did a beautiful job with the slide show.
nitesead 1 year ago
Nazi Germany blamed their economic problems on Jews and other minorities, like US fascists are today blaming immigrants. Trick the rich use make you look one way, while picking your back pocket. Don't fall for it, we the people, we are many they are few. Clinton in the 90s started beefing up the border because he knew US NAFTA policies would force wiped out Mexican farmers to emigrate here. Giant agri-business theft is all it is, like they did to small US farmers in the 1980s.
pvelectric 1 year ago 6
I disagree with the poster's premise that this song does not take a political point of view. It says that these are men and women, that labor is not a commodity, that there is something intrinsic in a man that makes him better than a shovel, a truck, or any other components of production.
MrConfederatesoldier 1 year ago
If you look at history the US has opened it's borders during times of war to immigrants to come and work here and fill positions in factories, but then after wartime the borders were closed and workers were sent home. Our borders operate on a need based system which is absolutely unfair to the immigrant workers that come to the US and are exploited with insufficient payscales and stereotypical attitudes.
VadroszaVendetta 2 years ago 2
life is unfair, the imigrants know what they are getting into and agree to it. thats all im saying, is they know the risks and the consequences. its their choice, too.
aaronmdutton 2 years ago
@aaronmdutton I suppose you could say that to the people that jumped into the freezing ocean to escape the Titanic as she went down. It was their choice, they knew what they were getting into.
Do you know what is going on in Mexico these days? Thousands of people are disappearing at the hands of drug lords; anti-labor forces murder union organizers.
madisonhack 1 year ago 2
@VadroszaVendetta so our government's policy is set by the military-industrial-congressional-prison complex that's behind many other ills of society? Who would have ever guessed? Well, besides Dwight Eisenhower, I mean...
atomburke 1 year ago
A year ago 32 Mexican men and woman were gathered in an immigration raid in my hometown in NJ. Within a month all were deported. Several of these fine people are friends, another 20, soccer acquaintances.
Rather than giving in to sadness I have been researching the history of immigration labor into the USA. For a direct Mexican connection tracing back to WWII, do a wiki or google search "Braceros Project" The coin to the issue of immigration has 2 sides. There is no room to harbor prejudice.
kosmoscitizen999 2 years ago 2
i think this is my favorite cover of the song
johnhamilton08 2 years ago
As one of the US-born farm workers who works with the migrants and with whom he is made to compete for jobs, I say: stop deportation! No more broken families, no more dead. Amnesty now!
CrawdaddyJoe 2 years ago
And, while we're at it, shut down the School of the Americas, now WHINSEC, and stop the trade policies and support of tyrannical governments that force our southern brothers to seek opportunity here in the first place!
CrawdaddyJoe 2 years ago
We are all humans on the planet and that's all that should matter
rydag11 2 years ago 56
thank you for your viedo my husband just got depoted and it hurts so bad!
tperez2008 2 years ago 31
@tperez2008 it just breaks my heart to know you suffer this injustice of families torn apart like yours has. lo siento.
cjg505 1 year ago
@tperez2008 I am so sorry for you. I'm a U.S. citizen and I'm ashamed. Por Vida.
rioblanco 1 year ago
@tperez2008 my prayers go out to you and your husband
Xandrys1 1 year ago
@tperez2008 It's been a year now. Is there anything I can do?
MaiHarinder 1 year ago
@tperez2008 Good, i'm glad he did. The lazy bastard should have done it legally.
Thathoboman 2 days ago
Peace and justice for all people regardless of boarders, despite the illusion of separation that plagues our minds. Wake up!
Freaknfrogger 2 years ago 4
The owners of the big farms should be required to pay enough per hour to draw workers from legal American citizens. And if tomatoes cost $10.00 a pound, then that's what they cost!
It's like a slave owner explaining that if he has to pay workers, then clothes will be expensive.
WDIAWLOK 2 years ago
What people don't realize is to what extent our own practices exacerbate the issues of illegal immigrants from Mexico. With Nafta and other trade agreements cheap corn can be pumped into Mexico, thus disenfranchising those Mexican farmers, causing them to look for new opportunities, in the land of opportunities. If we want to keep the immigrants out, we should stop pumping their economy with foreign goods that replace local goods.
veritaslateo 2 years ago
This is such a difficult, painful issue. I know very many undocumented immigrants, most of whom are very good, hard working people. But, as a social and economic phenomena, progressives and conservatives alike have to acknowledge that it's destructive. The US cannot take in every poor person from the 3rd world without severely straining social services and infrastructure.
jraider2 2 years ago
That may be the most intelligent thing I've ever read on YouTube. Kudos.
woodyi59 2 years ago
while one is asleep others are toiling the earth at slave wages. I've done it.
frenchharp1 2 years ago 2
Great video. You tube does keep history alive.
RoseShattuck 2 years ago 2
That song always makes me want to cry.
RobGoth100 2 years ago 2
Life just kinda goes on,, don't it?
cadin2020 2 years ago 2
Personally I like the highwaymen version better, but this is good too.
dave11980 3 years ago
This continues in the Southwest...
eightiesmike73 3 years ago
then why not open the borders? it works in europe.
hiragabaka 3 years ago 3
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Because its our country.
UShistoryX2 2 years ago
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waynembx 2 years ago
ours? Becasue we were born here? I don't recall being asked where I wanted to be born......it's a roll of the dice, we are really just all the same
boomac62 2 years ago 2
Where in Europe are talking about?!?! I think you need to search "read a book".
talkartoon 2 years ago
Well, it's not working so well in Europe. Europe has a lot of problems with huge slums full of immigrants, resentment from the native Europeans, and changing cultural landscape.
Now, me, I'd love it if all borders were gone and we didn't have states, but 'till then, it's a thorny problem. People don't like to feel like there's a dynamic away from their own dominance.
For me, I work in the feilds, sometimes alongside immigrants. I just wish all the ideologues would remember that they're people.
CrawdaddyJoe 2 years ago 4
well said...peace to all mankind.
cainpusa 2 years ago
Woody's song, but his son Arlo does the best version.
This incident took place more than 60 years ago.
Bob Dylan is wrong, 'The Times They're Not A Changing' This still goes on today. When will they ever learn (Pete Seeger)?
pornguy2 3 years ago
Agreed!
I love Dylan but Arlo speaks more truth. I grew up on Arlo, Dylan, Pete, and Woody, even though I am only 23. My father always sung me to sleep with these songs, he taught me what good music was!
nwscjhyatt777 2 years ago 3
I think we should all live where ever the hell we want. Who is anyone to tell anyone where they can or can't live. (i've always been a "think outside the box guy" ha ha)
IBMeddling 4 years ago 2
i wish we had a man like woody today
porkinwitz 4 years ago 4
We do his name is rambin' jack elliot
allenshepard 3 years ago
Good photocollage to a heartbreaking song. This is an old issue, revamped whenever deemed necessary.
marykmusic 4 years ago
check out version out
galpzz 4 years ago