How To Use Guthrie In A Sentence
- ( "Some will rob you with a six-gun/Some with a fountain pen," go the words to Woody Guthrie's ballad "Pretty Boy Floyd.") Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer
- Guthrie considered "God Bless America" too complacent, so he wrote a folk song with overtly political verses that are sometimes omitted in performances.
- When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs.
- Thus, though Guthrie believed that the insertion of the deltoid was the lowest point at which the bone should be divided, Esmarch has shown that at least four and a half inches can be removed and yet a most useful arm remain. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
- While Woody Guthrie was a rambling, gambling, hard-travelling, hard-drinking guy who collected a handful of wives in his time and whose guitar "killed fascists", his travelling partner, Pete Seeger was a teetotalling Quaker Unitarian pacifist who married a Japanese girl during World War Two and did time briefly for refusing to name names to Joe McCarthy. "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It To Surrender"
- Woody Guthrie once sang that “some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.” Rebecca Solnit: When the Media Is the Disaster: Covering Haiti
- The result is an authentically eerie, but faithful, rendering of Guthrie's songs.
- When James Guthrie was lying ill and like to die, he called in his man, James Cowie, to read in the Epistle to the Romans to him, and when Cowie came to these words, 'I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,' his master burst into tears, and said, 'James, I have nothing but that to lippen to.' Samuel Rutherford
- Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie and Joni Mitchell aren't on these tapes, but four tracks feature Dylan duetting with Joan Baez, his mentor from his early - 1960s folk period.
- Guthrie was a middle-class Oklahoman with a calculated aw-shucks cowboy manner, who just happened to be a Communist Party sympathizer and had written for communist newspapers.
