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Original CD release: Vanguard VMD 6546 [May 13, 1989]. We'd sit for an hour an' not say a word, And then these words would be heard: Sweethearts sat in the dark and sparked, They hugged and kissed in that dusty old dark. For example, in the notes to "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You, " Place includes this explanation from Guthrie: "We watched the dust storm come up like the red sea closing in on the Israel children... Those who were religious thought it was the end, someone in the group said, 'So long, it's been good to know you. '" The Prime of The Weavers. I got to the camp and I learnt how to fight.

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Drive a family from their home. And the vigilante bug hit Casey with a club. Then Tom he walked to the neighboring farm, He found his family. Wherever little kids are hungry and cry, Wherever people ain't free, Wherever men are fighting for their rights. "So long, it's been good to know you, So long, it's been good to know you, There's a mighty big war that's got to be won, And we'll get back together again. It's a mighty hard row that my poor hands has hoed. And the hungry little kids in the Jungle Camp. But Woody turned and twisted both verse and chorus until they had achieved the rakish angle appropriate this his own jaunty lyrics. I'm looking for a job with honest pay, Lord, Lord, Well, I'm a-going down this old dusty road. Chorus: My telephone rang and it jumped off the wall, That was the preacher a-makin' his call. The sheriff's men, boys, Are on my trail, boys, In the midnight wind, boys, And when they catch me. The melody in the verse is. Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection. As I went walking that ribbon of highway.

And I hauled my crops all into town, I got the money. Look at the pictures, too. The cow tossed her head and she swished 'round her tail And planted her left hind foot smack in the pail. Woody at 100 is the most masterful presentation to date of this most distinctive American storyteller in song. At last he prepares to depart: "So long, it's been good to know you (x3)... And I've got to be drifting along. The Weaver's Almanac. And walk away from that lonesome place. Hot motor and a heavy load. He kissed goodbye to the mother that he loved.

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And then he got away. Save this song to one of your setlists. Tom Joad came a-walking down the road, poor boy, Tom Joad came a-walking down the road. Pretty whisky bottles and naked women. And they laid the Reuben James on the cold ocean floor. Of some of the troubles that bothered my mind And a lot of good people that I've left behind, saying: So long, it's been good to know yuh; So long, it's been good to know yuh; So long, it's been good to know yuh.

I got to the camp and I learnt how to fight, Fascists in daytime, mosquitoes at night, I got my orders to cross o'er the sea, So I waved "goodbye" to the girls I could see, I got on a boat and I started to float, My old pack-sack and my big wool coat, With ten thousand men we rode the foam, And sung this song to the people back home... Fed the kids and raised a big family. Although the song had a limited success during its 1930s release by Guthrie, its popularity soared in 1951 when it was recorded by The Weavers with different verses. And all of their likes are finished and done. So I waved "goodbye" to the girls I could see, I got on a boat and I started to float.

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Records and the producers, musicians, and folklorists who played important roles in Guthrie's career. Writer(s): Woody Guthrie Lyrics powered by. Letters to the Editor. On that Canadian River's shore. I had a little farm, I called that Heaven.

Ask us a question about this song. Have you heard of the ship called the good Reuben James? So everywhere you look in the day or night. From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down. Produced & Annotated by Jeff Place '79 & Robert Santelli. The dusty old dust storm, it blew so black. Canadian Northwest to the ocean so blue, It's roll on, Columbia, roll on. They sighed, they cried, they hugged and they kissed. The pews were crowded from the front to the back. My generation learned it by non-folk means, but it's started to pass on to younger generations. Make that three versions. The rest of the song follows this basic I-IV-V chord progression.

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Recorded at Bradley's Barn, Mt. It's always we ramble that river and I. Good notes can vastly expand one's experience of a recording, and Place (who has several Grammys to his name) is one of the nation's most astute writers of song notes. Some with a fountain pen. And said "You just hang on, boy, I'll jump up and down. "

Woody turned and twisted both verse and chorus until they had. I got the news that the war had begun. Guthrie frequently drew on old-time country music, pairing his lyrics with well-known tunes and redrafting beloved country songs. Volume 35 Number 2 Winter 2013. So damn thin I really mean.

But this dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home. It jumped off the wall, That was the preacher, a-makin' his call. Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition! It has been categorized as a "Dust Bowl ballad" by music critics. Some will rob you with a six-gun. Singin': We talked of the end of the world, and then.