Playboy Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/66-jan.htm (February 1966)
“Most of my songs are about ladies. This one's about ladies metaphorically. There are some of my songs that are about the power of lightening.”
Songwriters' Circle, 2012
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Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.”
Rachel on the song Mountain Trip To Japan, 1959 and how she ended up in the band.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)
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Testimony http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/ochs.html at the Chicago Seven trial (11 December 1969)
“It's just about a lady who's a goddess of steeds and a maker of birds.”
(on "Rhiannon") The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll http://books.google.com/books?id=GBYEAAAAMBAJ (1996: Harvard University Press), ISBN 9780674802735, p. 281.
“I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.”
As quoted in "My Lunch with Warren Zevon" by David Bowman,Salon.com (17 March 2000)
"If I Had A Hammer" (1949) Though Seeger composed the music of this song the lyrics were actually written by fellow member of The Weavers, Lee Hays.
Misattributed
Context: If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this land.
I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land...
Well I got a hammer,
And I got a bell,
And I got a song to sing, all over this land.
It's the hammer of Justice,
It's the bell of Freedom,
It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.