My Uncle sang this song on his deathbed to the doctors & nurses. It made everyone smile, laugh, and feel so comfortable.

Woody Guthrie never lost faith in America and neither should we.

This the last song I played on the radio, after a 45 year career.

This song always makes me think of my dad...he picked it out for his funeral. Everyone loved it and said it was just perfect. Everyone was smiling by the end.

I played this after my dad's memorial. He loved some woody guthrie. ❤

I learned this song in grade school and sang part of it to my husband tonight and had to look it up.

I never even thought of this as a Depression song. We sang it the last time we would be seeing our music teacher Miss Kullington in 1960's Center School. We were graduating up to that horrid Pine Hill School or she got a new job or something. I didn't take it seriously like we would never see her again and feel the sadness I do now over those times and her being our music teacher being gone forever.

Simple words with simple melodies make universal masterpieces. Thank you Woody, it is good to know you

Learned that this song was written during the Black Sunday, April 14 1935, dust storm from the book "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan.

Awesome video and song. Perfect for a high school class studying the great depression.

It's a wonderfull song.. I love woody.. Seeger and the Almanac.. we need musicians like them .. Clever artists..

My new favourite song. I found it through The Avett brothers cover. I am not originally American but I’m married to an Okie now living in a small town in OK I has never heard about the dust bowl till last year when my husband&I watched The grapes of wrath. I fell asleep during the movie but since I’ve been listening to some of Woody’s songs I wanna watch the movie again

I love the music and the photos.

On this day [April 14] in 1935 a great dust storm covered the Texas Panhandle town of Pampa, inspiring Woody Guthrie to write the song "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You." Guthrie had moved to Pampa in 1929. Performing with bands at nightclubs and radio stations in the Panhandle, he found his calling as lyricist and musician and began developing skills that later gained him a reputation as a writer, cartoonist, and down-home philosopher. He married a Pampa girl, Mary Jennings, in 1933 and experienced the pain of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, sources of his many songs that appealed to his fellow sufferers. When the great storm of April 14, 1935, occurred, some Pampans thought that the end of the world was upon them and that there was just time for final goodbyes. Tired of dust and poverty, Guthrie left for Los Angeles in 1937. ~Texas State Historical Association

So simple and so powerful, folk music without embellishment at its purest. Still my favourite version.

A lot of us know about our past, but we foolishly regard it as 'only the past'. We assume that the future will be different, but it won't.

Immortal woody Guthrie ✝️

I learned this song when a good friend who's sadly no longer with us sang it for my beloved Squeak the Cat. I came here to find it for a friend who just today lost her furry friend Pupster, a blonde hound who was 15½ years old.

Good point. That was a period when the industrial revolution and industrialists took advantage of the worker and we needed some balance in work compensation and opportunity. We are starting to see the widespread disparity in wages and the corporate rich, which creates a lot of social tension and unrest. We need to have a strong middle class if we want to prosper.

Beautiful, touching song. The uploader has done a magnificent job with the pictures he's chosen. Perfect! Two thumbs up! :)

This song takes on an entirely new meaning and relevancy in the current state of the world; I truly think Guthrie was one of the best- imagine being woke before most of us were born.

brilliant is this one.Thank you so much Woody Guthrie .

Most modern folk singers are wise enough not to separate the working class up by race. Just like Woody, they understand that all workers should unite. Looking at one another differently by race only helps the aristocrats maintain power.

I just remembered this song from when I was very young. I used to hear it on the radio. I'm very happy to find it was by Woody Guthrie, and I'm glad I got to hear it before he was blacklisted.

In 1952, when I was 5 years old, an air force neighbor sang this song to me as he went in and out of the house, packing his belongings. He was headed to Korea. He never returned, and I can't remember his name, but I'll never forget him singing that song.

Thank you so much for this memory of the great Qoody Guthrie. If you like him you should search for "Alice's Restaurant" where his son Arlo Guthrie carries on. Yeah. Thank you.

Woody Guthrie's songs its so pure

This song makes me think if folk songs really are the old rap.

beautifulll pics!!!

Listening this as my accompaniment to the COVID apocalypse.

Great shots and a proper song ""

My grandfather used to play this for me.

He died on my birthday (Oct 3rd) The decal on his gitbox read "This Machine Kills Fascists" Here's to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Canuck "Mac Paps" Long may the bells of Freedom Ring!

Woody once said "im not necessarily a commie but i have always been in the red "

Just realized mom was born in the Dirty Thirty’s in California during the days of the dust bowl. This song was interesting to hear. Thanks!

..another classic from a true american - RIP.....

Just been to a friends Funeral and this was played as a Farewell song chosen by him to say goodbye, very touching ❤

this song reminds me of my first grade teacher cause she taught my class this song

Live always, woody

In my preschool class back in the late 90s, we used to have "goodbye parties" for students who were leaving, whether to start kindergarten or just get taken out of the program. Whenever we had these parties, the leaving student would sit at the front of the class with the teacher, who would lead us in singing the chorus of this song, and then transition into Make New Friends But Keep The Old.

My family lived on a farm in North Dakota during the dust bowl. My grandfather died at the beginning and my grandmother was left with five kids. They nearly starved.

My music teacher in 3rd or 4th grade made us learn this song and im in 7th and i still remember it

Thanks brother-a great tune from a great man,but what impressed me most was the vid-wonderful selection of pictures thoughtfully put together..respect!

Parts of the song are being sung to me because of currents events, personally. Yet, Guthrie's lyrics, overall, bring it back to reality of his times....😢

Wonderful song, i love it

The song's about the end of friendships, neighbourly, connections and tight knit communities brought on by the dust bowl atmosphere of the dirty 30's. This era left it's mark on an entire generation and psychologically made people very cautious when it came to their expenditures unlike today's folk determined to have it all without recognising the risks ...

so long, woody, it's been good to know ya!

It's a shame people don't know who woody guthrie is

This is when we got to be called Okies. It was meant as a slur but my family took it and run with it. 'Why, yes, I am a Okie. You have a problem with that? Well, then, you got a problem…' Somethin in my eye, dust?

My father looks so much like him, he sang songs, road the trains all o er USA with he’s guitar smoked cigarettes, he left us at home, some thing as woody, he even looked like him, But my was Mexican, did the same as woody, but never was

My grandparents lived in Pampa during this dust storm.

beautiful

I am now in 2024 reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Allen. I am 70 years young.

Extremely well edited video. And your choice of images is superb. Congratulations and thank you! Ron

Truly inspiring. Woody Guthrie, and all his songs is what people should think of when they think about the USA. And not just things like baseball, hot dogs, etc. No, no. When people really think deep, think into the goodness and love within they will think of Woody Guthrie. He truly encaptures the spirit of our country and hopefully will till the end of time.

Woody Guthrie Forever!

in one of his lasst interviwes h was tlking about this song and how it had ment so much to him. so brian where ever you are ether you sailing or traveling i hope that this song will help get you there as safe a possible. Good luck Brian Jacques have along rest now its good to take a brake and thankks for the fun

You can always convince one half of the poor to kill off the other half ~ Boss Tweed~

Damn I'm depressed but these songs are pulling me out of it

@mkworkman yes, but... later on it became metaphoric for being on the road. I saw one of those dust storms when I was traveling in Australia. It's an awesome sight. flying topsoil. Woodie began 2be a regular traveler; it's like the dust taught him 2fly. I saw a picture of him with his Gibson guitar and no guitar case out on the road somewhere sitting next to Burl Ives, reading a copy of "The Hobo News".

in one of his lasst interviwes h was tlking about this song and how it had ment so much to him. so brian where ever you are ether you sailing or traveling i hope that this song will help get you there as safe a possible. Good luck Brian Jacques have along rest now its good to take a brake

@tommyjstas77 He was loved....He played with the greats...Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger....

Woody went through hell at the end. It’s now my time to face the same curse, due to carrying the mutant gene. I’ve always wondered why I was such a outcast from the beginning.

I love this song. This song is so great. I hate country but I don't consider this country, this is folk singing at it's finest. You know, I feel that he was the original Bob Dylan. He didn't have as much crazy stuff to write about in his time, but he had the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. I love his music. And he had the best sticker ever on his guitar: THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS!!! Talk about bad ass...

good one!

mito ed esempio x molti autori e cantautori

Sounds too good for Lomax's recordings, circa 1929.... I could be wrong... but in 1929, he was using a transcription disc recorder powered from his car generator. The discs are usually a bit noisy from the 20's, also they had a time limit of about 3 minutes. This sounds to be 50s or so.

true, i've made the silly mistake of thinking when you make a mistake you actually learn from it. i have not figured into the fact that what i view as a mistake, i.e. starting wars that always end badly with millions dead and nothing gained, or letting robber barons steal the public till, or 30 years of a failed drug war... what i have failed to realize is the people who fund and believe in these things don't view them as mistakes, they believe society benefits from their greed and hatred.

Yes! "Quien no conoce su historia esta condenado a repetirla."

Happy 99th Woodrow!

solidarity.

Thanks

"Why do you think TV is called "programming"?" This is one of the funniest lines I've heard about TV, did you find it yourself or heard it somewhere? If you did, can I steal it?

Yes you are so right

My life soundtrack

OS AMERICANOS COM TUDO NAS MÃOS, UM CANTOR CANTA SUAS AMARGURAS , IMAGINA NOS AQUI NO BRAZIL.

gr8 song

this dusty old sandusky is blown me home

what a wonderfully bold adornment for the 1930's. I'd be interested to learn how Guthrie was thought of among his more proper contemporaries.

Tell that to the people who are working themselves to death and struggling to make it and get by while trying to hold on to what little bit of sanity they have left. Myself included. It FEELS like a fkn depression even if some call it a recession.Recession is just a fancy word for "WE'RE ALL SCREWED".

This song was inspired by Woody being in one of the worst dust storms in like 1936 in Texas. He became political due to the treatment of migrant works from the Dust Bowl by folks in California. He was not a communist in the sense of Stalin, but given the disparity between rich and poor and the treatment of workers in the 1930's/1940's he would appear to be very left asking for the things we take for granted.

Steinbeck couldn't do it better! This is Americana at its most finest!

[LEMON] We'll know each other a while yet, but I want you to finish the playlist, buddy. Today was your show, but now it's your turn to "direct." It took us a while to get here, but it's time to finish the job. If you love me, you won't let anyone die anymore. Don't blame yourself if somebody does, though. It won't be your fault. I'll keep living for our sake. I don't think I could stand knowing that I wouldn't see the face you choose.

fuck what a classic gonna play this when i die !

amen

take care of you, if i have no job you take care of me, if you got no job i take care of you", i think thats okay, we don't want to loose someone

Music country..

People want to listen to pop because its popular, makes them feel like they belong somewhere. Humans dont like being alone, and since no1 is bothering to look up old things because of this reason, it does out. Majority=popular(doesnt mean the song is good). Its people who keep things alive,not docs or paper. We talked about this in my eng class, except it was about how people keep democracy alive...

Thats country.....

roll credits ... fade to black ...

You must see the film: Grapes of Wrath

i have this on my cell phone.

2020?

Can I use this music (if credits for the Publisher go to you +Alberto Al)?

@TingoTroy Well put

Is there any guitar tabs for this. like the picking etc..

Camp Awajah!

Do you know what would help me sleep at night? Knowing that Americans did run this world.

you are so right, i don't care how rich people are, but i do care if people are so poor that they can't live a decent live, and with the richness in USA, this should not be a problem, USA needs a little socialism

It's because we have a socialdemocratic ideology. A mix of state-controlled economy and marketing economy, which we call mixed market economy. The last 200 years our governments have had a very important issue of focus, the welfare system.