Remember Pete Seeger's Children's Concert?
Well this song from that recording is dedicated to Cindy Sheehan.
When Pete says, "This is one that he taught me," the reference is to Leadbelly.
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Photo: Legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger performs at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 4 as part of Freedom Summer, 1964. Photo by Herbert Randall. Published by University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
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Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes
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