Seminars in theatre British Shakespeare actors, part one
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And I have the power and I
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have and I
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have a car I have a car I am a man I have a
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communication center the University of Texas at Austin brings you are
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traveling a series dedicated to the American Folk poet Woody
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Guthrie.
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Too many people he is a symbol of the fighting spirit that organized the dunes
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like rated westward from the Dust Bowl you know and the close to the beauties of a lawyer
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who seriousness a picture in sound of Woody Guthrie his music
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and his hard traveling burning at the Harvard
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campus.
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The mid 50s and early 60s saw an incredible rise in the commercial
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popularity of folk music. It was inevitable that the revival should produce
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songwriters of its own and this group has been dubbed Woody's children.
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Like Woody they are concerned with getting a message across and do not care to pull punches.
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They come from different parts of the country but most live now in New York.
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Bob Dylan is undoubtedly the most spectacular of Woody's children. Here he pays
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tribute to his idol.
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Class is from my home.
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The men of gone down. Now
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see things.
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Their proper presents and
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Prince.
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Woody Guthrie were what you saw.
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At a party. That's a common.
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Thing.
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And looks like.
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It's a diet and that's hardly.
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A Woody Guthrie but I know that you know.
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All things are the same many times more.
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Promising but it can't sing and
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I think not many man then the
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things that you don't.
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Hear is just golden and sunny and Leadbelly.
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Good people will read.
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The hearts and the hands of the man.
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Right.
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With time like Gone With The Wind.
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I'm leaving tomorrow. Donna could leave today.
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So.
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I don't want to use a slate.
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Being hit so hard travelin too.
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Dylan started out by imitating Woody. You no longer sings or writes in that
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style but others carry on the tradition. Jack Elliott has adapted
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himself to Woody style so closely that when Woody heard a recording of him he exclaimed
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that fellow sounds more like me than I do. Here is Jack Elliott.
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Where in Reno Nevada. Where the romance
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is blue man. They agreed
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with the mob and we.
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Will wander over the lights a sober
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aisle when you were divorced from your own and willing to
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get married while the meal was a gun toting
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cowboy at 10 not just car bomb
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and all of that while Bill
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thought of.
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One as returning an MRI. The
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range then thought of the
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room. It was a slice as well as
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their shadows. One of the great melody
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maker of the bills all the.
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While And I was there last Monday and the moon and
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I over Bill and no one
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pick her up. Your answers are
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burning your arms around.
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Me as well cowboy.
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Well then I'd back you know the answer right
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there one less better.
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There were a few women among Woody's children one of the most outstanding is a creepy Indian
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girl Buffy Sainte-Marie. She is deeply concerned with the plight of the American
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Indian and has written a haunting and bitter statement of this plight called now that the
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buffalo's gone.
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And.
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Draw your great great grandfather from
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India.
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And you've
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been.
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One. Of.
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My.
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And you.
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I had.
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One of these in.
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Washington signed a lady.
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Call me. But it's
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not.
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Hello.
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Damn I. Know that the money is gone.
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Eric Anderson like Woody has written of the land and the people. Here is
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Eric with a broadside singers singing the plains of Nebraska.
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RATHER And that's where I think you ought to
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go.
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Where they go on the stands high school
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with great legends about you.
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In school I learned. But
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not of the.
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Land is drunk. Farmers.
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In.
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The plowed fields without sleep.
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To walk down a tree to seek their fortune.
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And where are the father and mother
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in the snow. And where you watch the bank
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lighthouses down things I guess never know.
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Where the rivers around free. That's a place where you go.
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Where the corn is the slice
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of all the rest.
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You smile and say time's gone away.
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I guess my.
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Word. Is it true that
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every.
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Heard of a country where the rivers run free. That's.
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Right.
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In our next program we'll meet more of what he's children
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and
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you have been listening to hard travelin series devoted to the life
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and music of Woody Guthrie written and directed by Judith
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Adams.
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Produced by Job Walker May 4th communication center the University of
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Texas at Austin. This is and you are the national
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education or radio network.
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