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Woodie Guthrie Copyright Notice

For whatever reason, I’ve been listening to a lot of early folk, country, and blues. I was reading about Woodie Guthrie, and I thought this copyright notice fit well with the themes of amateurism that I’ve discussed on this blog.

“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

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Also, here’s one of only two known films of Guthrie performing.