I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any
good.
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 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 traveling.
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.
And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part
by all sorts of folks just about like you.
Woody Guthrie, Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of
Woody Guthrie
