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| Todd Snider – Happy New Year Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I really like this song. I think it's just Todd going out and saying exactly how he feels on these views. He doesn't care if you disagree because they're his views and he's gonna sing them because he's a folk singer and that's what folk singers do. |
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| Todd Snider – Happy New Year Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I really like this song. I think it's just Todd going out and saying exactly how he feels on these views. He doesn't care if you disagree because they're his views and he's gonna sing them because he's a folk singer and that's what folk singers do. |
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| Todd Snider – Play A Train Song Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I love this song because Todd's love for one of his best friends was poured out into this song and you can feel it. Just listening to the song makes you think you know Skip and you almost cry by the end of it. When I saw him play this song live, I could almost hear him start to cry a little near the end of the song but it wasn't a sad cry, it was a happy cry. |
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| The Avett Brothers – The Ballad of Love and Hate Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I like the part about the taxi cab driver. I can picture what was love at first sight to him and right when he's imagining their future together, she's out of his life. He was sure it was meant to be but fate has assured him otherwise. |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – Ingrid Bergman Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I really love this song. Ingrid Bergman was an actor who's movies Woody would always see in the theater when his Huntington's started settling in. To me, it represents loving someone so much that no matter how impossible it may seem, reality seems to float away as you picture yourself with your dreamgirl and know that it will happen. |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – Hesitating Beauty Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song was probably written by Woody when he would watch the kids during the day and write songs for them. This is where many of his children's songs came from (Hoodoo Voodoo, Why oh Why, etc.). I picture him trying to cheer up his daughter, Nora Lee, by writing her this song. |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – At My Window Sad and Lonely Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I'm guessing that Woody wrote this when he was on one of his 2 tours in the navy during WWII. He would always miss his second wife, Marjorie, and I see him frantically worrying and thinking about her on his whole trip. |
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| Wilco – Hummingbird Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I love this song, and the more I listen to it, the more I picture Woody Guthrie. "Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll. A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her" Woody travled across the nation several times during his liftime. He had traveled Route 66, he boasted, enough to run it up to 6,666, back and forth, across the county as whim and winds took him. All the while, he never seemed to find what he was looking for. "Her" could be refering to either his mother or his first wife , Mary. "A cheap sunset on a television set can upset her. But he never could" makes me think of his mother who suffer ed from huntingtons disease, that made her very easy to displease. Woody was in a way, similar to an echo. He would settle down in one place only to leave and not turn up for months. It mentions him living in loud cities and qiet mountains. Woody lived in both places several times. The chorus is what really gets me. Woody Guthrie had the need to be remembered by others and the ability to be remembered by everyone he talked to. He would try to make the biggest difference wherever he went.
Although Tweedy probably didn't write this song about Woody, I know he is an inspirations to Tweedy's music. I like thinking that it's about him because as a 12 year old Okie boy, Woody Guthrie is my biggest heroe and Tweedy is my second. So it's cool to think of one of my heroes singing about my other heroe. Great song. Wilco Rocks. |
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