July 14, 2006

Birthday for Woody

Filed under: Almanac - Ric @ 8:15 am

It’s the birthday of the singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, born in Okemah, Oklahoma (1913). He wrote “This Land Is Your Land,” “Pretty Boy Floyd,” “Vigilante Man,” “Hobo’s Lullaby,” “Hard, Ain’t it Hard,” “Pastures of Plenty,” “This Train is Bound for Glory,” “I Got No Home in the World Anymore,” “Billy the Kid.”

From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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