The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. A… - Woody Guthrie

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The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with — - and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....

Woody Guthrie

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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (14 July 1912 – 3 October 1967) was a prolific American folk musician, most famous for his song "This Land Is Your Land" (1940).

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Alternative Names: Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie

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The world is filled with people who are no longer needed — and who try to make slaves of all of us — and they have their music and we have ours.

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I’d give my life just to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars

As I go walking this ribbon of highway I see above me the endless skyway And all around me the wind keeps saying: This land is made for you and me.

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes I slept on the ground in the light of the moon On the edge of the city you'll see us and then We come with the dust and we go with the wind

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