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Woody Guthrie wrote:
I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling.
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.
Pete Seeger said that if you want to have great love, you've got to have great anger. But it is also true that anger can be turned inward, nurturing despair rather than hope. May the songs you find here help you get through another day, inspire passion for change and renewal, propel you forward, become a catalyst for personal growth as well as social change that begins with yourself.
As Tom Paxton wrote:
Peace
Peace will
Peace will come
And let it begin with me
We
We need
We need peace
And let it begin with me
Oh, my own life is all I can hope to control.
Oh, let my life be lived for the good,
Good of my soul.
Let it bring
Peace
Sweet peace
Peace will come
And let it begin with me
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