Pete Seeger
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Those who stood up to the committee, as Lee says, if it wasn't for the honor, he'd just as soon not been blacklisted. It was an honor.
Those who stood up to the committee, as Lee says, if it wasn't for the honor, he'd just as soon not been blacklisted. It was an honor.
Well, I was mad. I wrote some articles in Sing Out magazine warning people that this ABC television show called Hootenanny would be kind of a travesty on what a real hootenanny would be. A real hootenanny was a bunch of people who hoped that music could
Well, I was mad. I wrote some articles in Sing Out magazine warning people that this ABC television show called Hootenanny would be kind of a travesty on what a real hootenanny would be. A real hootenanny was a bunch of people who hoped that music could
Well, I was mad. I wrote some articles in Sing Out magazine warning people that this ABC television show called Hootenanny would be kind of a travesty on what a real hootenanny would be. A real hootenanny was a bunch of people who hoped that music could
It could bring people together to bring a peaceful world, a world without racism, a world where you had a right to join a union, a world without sexism. And instead, it was a second-rate vaudeville show. Some good folk music got played on the air but there was an awful lot which was kept off the air. Why? Because it wasn't cheerful, happy music.
It could bring people together to bring a peaceful world, a world without racism, a world where you had a right to join a union, a world without sexism. And instead, it was a second-rate vaudeville show. Some good folk music got played on the air but there was an awful lot which was kept off the air. Why? Because it wasn't cheerful, happy music.
It could bring people together to bring a peaceful world, a world without racism, a world where you had a right to join a union, a world without sexism. And instead, it was a second-rate vaudeville show. Some good folk music got played on the air but there was an awful lot which was kept off the air. Why? Because it wasn't cheerful, happy music.
And yet, to my mind, some of the greatest tragic music in the world are the tragic songs that I've heard sung by American working people.
And yet, to my mind, some of the greatest tragic music in the world are the tragic songs that I've heard sung by American working people.
And yet, to my mind, some of the greatest tragic music in the world are the tragic songs that I've heard sung by American working people.
It's hard to say. Talk about freedom and justice, maybe. It's hard to say, hard to say. If you tried to pin people down, they'd just say, that's one of these Kame songs. I'm sure in the southern states, the segregationist leaders would have said, oh, let's talk about all my brothers and sisters. Only the Kame's talk that way. Only the race mixers talk like that. My gosh.
It's hard to say. Talk about freedom and justice, maybe. It's hard to say, hard to say. If you tried to pin people down, they'd just say, that's one of these Kame songs. I'm sure in the southern states, the segregationist leaders would have said, oh, let's talk about all my brothers and sisters. Only the Kame's talk that way. Only the race mixers talk like that. My gosh.
It's hard to say. Talk about freedom and justice, maybe. It's hard to say, hard to say. If you tried to pin people down, they'd just say, that's one of these Kame songs. I'm sure in the southern states, the segregationist leaders would have said, oh, let's talk about all my brothers and sisters. Only the Kame's talk that way. Only the race mixers talk like that. My gosh.
People today can't realize, though, how much America has changed as a result of the civil rights movement and one thing after another, the women's movement. we didn't win all the victories we hoped we would win, but we won some victories. And maybe that's the way the world moves forward. One of my favorite songs these days is, oh gosh, I love it, but don't have a guitar with me.
People today can't realize, though, how much America has changed as a result of the civil rights movement and one thing after another, the women's movement. we didn't win all the victories we hoped we would win, but we won some victories. And maybe that's the way the world moves forward. One of my favorite songs these days is, oh gosh, I love it, but don't have a guitar with me.
People today can't realize, though, how much America has changed as a result of the civil rights movement and one thing after another, the women's movement. we didn't win all the victories we hoped we would win, but we won some victories. And maybe that's the way the world moves forward. One of my favorite songs these days is, oh gosh, I love it, but don't have a guitar with me.
Arlo and I sing it all the time.
Arlo and I sing it all the time.
Arlo and I sing it all the time.