guitarist, singer-songwriter, street artist, musicologist, songwriter, autobiographer, mandolinist, composer, violinist, singer, trade unionist
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1912 – 1967
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple God blessed America for me.
All you can write is what you see.
I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes We come with the dust and we go with the wind
My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls...
Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
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.
I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
This land is your land, this land is my land This land is made for you and me.
As I go walking this ribbon of highway This land is made for you and me.
When the sun came shining as I was strolling, This land was made for you and me.
Nobody living can ever stop me This land was made for you and me.
I'd better quit my talking, 'cause I told you all I know, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I better quit my talking now; I told you all I know, And I'm about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.