Woody Guthrie: Voice of the Common Man

[@PassingNotesMusic]

Thank you so much for talking more about his life and the things he represented rather than just the music. Woody Guthrie is one of my heros. I live in Mt. Olive, IL, at the burial place of Mother Jones. Unfortunately this town doesn't even know or care about what an incredible piece of history it's sitting on, but sometimes I like to visit Mother Jones's grave and play her some Woody tunes.

[@Lorys0107]

I'm from Italy , adore Woody Guthrie and what he means for American social evolution , and your video is very well done . Love it . Thanks .

[@mswimmer8]

@Lddy This film was made when I was 14 years old for a competition called National History Day. I referred to him as Guthrie because that was the correct format for doing it in the competition I created the film for. Please do not criticize the writing of a teenager who simply did not want to lose points for a silly reason.

[@NikkoYM]

Great job. I really liked this short presentation, and am honestly surprised it was done when you were 14!

[@bigco4615]

that's grammatically correct. Woody would be fine but referring to him as Guthrie is more professional. Nothing to shame or knock there :)

[@Vaniljebjoern]

I have just begun reading the Biography called Ramblin' Man 'bout Woody, and i'm absolutly amaized by him. he was such a great man. RIP

[@GlennMichaelThompson]

Very well done, and you were just 14 yrs old! Just knowing who Woody Guthrie was is a testament to your knowledge of the history of the early American folk movement that changed the USA for the better (imho).

[@leland-bobpalmer4274]

I LIKE IT! Melissa- thanks for Creating this! Woody is a national treasure: is timeless & worth more than gold. I even believe "This Land is your Land" should actually be The National Anthem instead of the old war song about flags & bombings. One Love P.S.- Anyone who Likes this & Woody should check out Bob Dylan's Tribute & GREAT poem= "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie" Here is one of Woodrow's great inspiring creeds “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 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. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.” ― Woody Guthrie

[@oneirishpoet]

how very cool that a 14 y.o. young woman had the insight and talent to put this video together, thanks for sharing

[@harleyspringer1]

Thank you for posting this video on someone who has never been recognized enough!

[@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712]

He sang my mother's favorite songs. You are my sunshine was the one she sang most often. THANKS

[@hpensive]

This music is still soothing THIS DEPRESSION over. Thanks Woody

[@peakdavid]

Outstanding example of digital storytelling about one of the great Americans.

[@govindaanand2284]

WELL DONE VIDEO. CONGRATS MISS MELISS

[@xFlashbackxbrd]

Worth listening to all the way through. Very well done.

[@TheTroublesIrishBand]

Beautifully done tribute to a legend.

[@TheCmjake]

Lovely. Can be shown in social studies classrooms!

[@vorhaug]

Thanx this is a good representation of Woody, thanx, I shared in facebook :-)

[@aquariusrizing]

My Grandfather was Charles L. Todd- he met and befriended Woody at the farm worker encampment he managed. Small world. They remained friends until Woody's death on Roosevelt Island.

[@MrDgoodrow]

Woody Guthrie is a gifted guy and a place for people that in the dust bowls

[@ericgriffis9552]

a 14 year old made that? that was fantastic.

[@bazerbear]

@mswimmer8 well done, it brought tears to my eyes, im 58 m from australia, loved his son arlo now i know why.

[@inkey2]

a 14 year old made this???? This is a pretty slick production

[@LarryMcLarnon]

Woody, with the likes of Pete Seeger, was there from the beginning, and, as we all know, inspired Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and others, who all acknowledge woody.

[@whitespruce26]

This is well done! Thank you!

[@goatman666]

well done girl

[@mikefatah]

Outstanding!

[@GoodyBob]

The 2 forgotten stanzas at 7:05 ...so equally true today.

[@onenewworldmonkey]

right on!

[@chiledoug]

well done ..awesome job...

[@marakaretsos5204]

🎵⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@BiddaBiddaCherryPie]

What music did you use during the video?

[@MzBoogieMonster]

@kilomeister Seriously? I think Elvis is fun. He's obviously no Woody or Dylan or whoever is in your mind at the moment. But like Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, etc., he was fun. On the side of social importance, he (and the above mentioned, etc) helped bring two legally segregated communities together and forget their differences. Lighten up.

[@fmichaelb]

It's pronounced o-KEE-ma. And he was an activist, as the other poster already pointed out. Other than those two minor mistakes, it still a very good job.

[@mikeymacaque]

Well considering Socialism was around for a hundred years by the time Woody was born, and considering the Russian Revolution happened when Woody was 5 years old (and the USSR lasted until the 90s), I'm almost positive Woody knew quite well what socialism was. Thanks for playing though.

[@SandfordSmythe]

He was very strongly associated with the Communist Party USA

[@1canyonguy]

Excellent job although you might have given some credit to Rambling Jack Elliott and I would have to say without a doubt he was most certainly an activist

[@onenewworldmonkey]

What a great job!!!! I only wish you would have had someone sing the parts of "This land is your land" that were from the original one and omitted. I spent five minutes trying to get it right. Your a chicken for not doing it yourself! Cool.

[@igorpanchenko852]

Oh

[@cooljwj]

haha i'm related to him

[@starlight1946]

...when the oil boom went bust the family lost everything... (History repeating itself)

[@chiledoug]

@Kreuger1092 i agrre my friend my parents went through this

[@asuka813]

@Kreuger1092 Yes indeed, financial depression is here, teetering on the edge of falling over. Another dust bowl is unfortunately inevitable as the agricultural practices which brought about the last one are still in place... and getting worse.

[@MrDrewlips]

@Freethinker12341 I thought so too until I looked it up. He supports Ron Paul and joined the Republican party.

[@MrDrewlips]

and Arlo's a Republican of the Ron Paul variety.

[@tonym994]

Ron Paul has been a Libertarian for about 35 years. and I can see Arlo belonging to that party, but I doubt very much that he's a Republican.besides, as long as he doesn't beat people over the head w/ his politics, that's all that matters. Libertarians want all illicit drugs to be legal to use/abuse. like booze has been since 1933.

[@BrokenArrowCambridge]

Is Arlo still a republican ?

[@Lddy]

Stop calling Woody "Guthrie." If you knew anything about him, you would know that he preferred to be called "Woody." Every time I hear "Guthrie" I have negative emotions...

[@johnnym.griffith8524]

Not breat

[@jasong428]

I can't see Mr Guthrie growing up in a home where the various sorts of possible governmental outcomes for the world were freely discussed. Unlike today's shiftless wage-burners, those people had things to do. Finally, there is no need to "thank me for playing" as there are no games afoot. I would turn that around and thank you for making up random things to support your own belief system and then I would invite you to seek a cliff and if you whine I would be glad to push you. Do not respond..