Pete Seeger

Your Honor, you may know a friend of mine, Woody Guthrie. Great songwriter and a great American, and Woody's not well. But he's been much on my mind as I've been going through this because Woody once said that a good song can only do good. And the song I'm in hot water for here, it's a good song. It's a patriotic song, in fact.

Your Honor, you may know a friend of mine, Woody Guthrie. Great songwriter and a great American, and Woody's not well. But he's been much on my mind as I've been going through this because Woody once said that a good song can only do good. And the song I'm in hot water for here, it's a good song. It's a patriotic song, in fact.

Your Honor, you may know a friend of mine, Woody Guthrie. Great songwriter and a great American, and Woody's not well. But he's been much on my mind as I've been going through this because Woody once said that a good song can only do good. And the song I'm in hot water for here, it's a good song. It's a patriotic song, in fact.

And I thought maybe you'd like to actually hear the words and I can play it for you.

And I thought maybe you'd like to actually hear the words and I can play it for you.

And I thought maybe you'd like to actually hear the words and I can play it for you.

And you won't know. You're not doing that again.

And you won't know. You're not doing that again.

And you won't know. You're not doing that again.

When you go to work, well, you work like the devil. At the end of the week, you're not on the level. Payday comes, you ain't got a penny. Because when you pay your bills, you got so many. I'm going to starve and everybody will. Because you can't make a living in a cotton mill. When you buy clothes on easy term, collect to treat you like a measly worm.

When you go to work, well, you work like the devil. At the end of the week, you're not on the level. Payday comes, you ain't got a penny. Because when you pay your bills, you got so many. I'm going to starve and everybody will. Because you can't make a living in a cotton mill. When you buy clothes on easy term, collect to treat you like a measly worm.

When you go to work, well, you work like the devil. At the end of the week, you're not on the level. Payday comes, you ain't got a penny. Because when you pay your bills, you got so many. I'm going to starve and everybody will. Because you can't make a living in a cotton mill. When you buy clothes on easy term, collect to treat you like a measly worm.

One dollar down and then Lord knows if you can't make a payment they take your clothes. I'm gonna starve and everybody will cause you can't make a living in a cotton mill.

One dollar down and then Lord knows if you can't make a payment they take your clothes. I'm gonna starve and everybody will cause you can't make a living in a cotton mill.

One dollar down and then Lord knows if you can't make a payment they take your clothes. I'm gonna starve and everybody will cause you can't make a living in a cotton mill.

Woody showed me how to hitchhike and how to ride freight trains, how to sing in saloons. I said, what kind of songs did you sing? Well, he said, this year, here's five or six tunes that are nearly always worth a nickel or a quarter. Makes no difference now what kind of life fate hands me. I'll get along without you now. That's plain to see. It's a Gene Autry hit. Was in 1940.

Woody showed me how to hitchhike and how to ride freight trains, how to sing in saloons. I said, what kind of songs did you sing? Well, he said, this year, here's five or six tunes that are nearly always worth a nickel or a quarter. Makes no difference now what kind of life fate hands me. I'll get along without you now. That's plain to see. It's a Gene Autry hit. Was in 1940.

Woody showed me how to hitchhike and how to ride freight trains, how to sing in saloons. I said, what kind of songs did you sing? Well, he said, this year, here's five or six tunes that are nearly always worth a nickel or a quarter. Makes no difference now what kind of life fate hands me. I'll get along without you now. That's plain to see. It's a Gene Autry hit. Was in 1940.

No. For a man, of course, for a woman it would be much more difficult. The danger of being assaulted by men who assume that any woman who would travel that way is open to his advances. Woody said, you wait in the outskirts of town, and when the train is picking up speed, it's still not going too fast. You can grab a hold of it and swing on.

No. For a man, of course, for a woman it would be much more difficult. The danger of being assaulted by men who assume that any woman who would travel that way is open to his advances. Woody said, you wait in the outskirts of town, and when the train is picking up speed, it's still not going too fast. You can grab a hold of it and swing on.