Woody Guthrie: Going

Woody Guthrie was American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Explore interesting quotes on going.
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“I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to heaven
You find no policeman there”

Woody Guthrie

“I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised
People all over this world are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose

Race hatred cannot stop us, this one thing I know
Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose

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People of every color marching side by side
Marching across these fields where a million fascists died
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose

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I'm going into this battle, take my union gun
Gonna end this world of slavery before this war is won
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose”

Woody Guthrie

All You Fascists (1944) https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/All_You_Fascists.htm

War , People , World , Color

“Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.”

Woody Guthrie

The last line of this last stanza is also sometimes rendered "This land is made for you and me."
This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)

Freedom

“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”

Woody Guthrie

"Pastures of Plenty" (1941)

Light

“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.”

Woody Guthrie

This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)

“I better quit my talking now; I told you all I know,
But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go,
I'm older than your old folks, and I'm younger than the young,
And I'm about the biggest thing that man has ever done.”

Woody Guthrie

The Columbia River Collection (1941), Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done