I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.
I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to
lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too
young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that
run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.
I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop
of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your
world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops,
no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing
the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks
just about like you.
- Woody Guthrie
