"'I felt like there was something that needed to be said in this moment,' says Anna Canoni. The person to say it, however, turned out to be her grandfather, Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967."
Woody Guthrie is Still Speaking to Us on Woody at Home – Vol. 1 + 2:
"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."
— #WoodyGuthrie, "American Songbook"
Sadly, his estate and publishers did not honour his wish 😔
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