Woody Guthrie quotes
Woody Guthrie was an American folk singer and songwriter, celebrated for his influential protest songs and social commentary. His music captured the struggles and hopes of ordinary people during the Great Depression and beyond. He inspired generations of musicians with his powerful lyrics and enduring legacy. Here are 41 of his quotes:
Okemah was one of the singiest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.
Woody Guthrie
I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
Woody Guthrie
I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised
People all over this world are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us, this one thing I know
Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
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People of every color marching side by side
Marching across these fields where a million fascists died
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
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I'm going into this battle, take my union gun
Gonna end this world of slavery before this war is won
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose.
Woody Guthrie
