Here's a dose of political incorrectness for you:
Ten hundred books could I write you about her
Because I felt if I could know her
I would know all women
And they've not been any too well known
For brains and planning and organised thinking
But I'm sure the women are equal
And they may be ahead of the men
Yet I wouldn't spread such a rumor around
Because one organises the other
And sometimes the most lost and wasted
Attract the most balanced and sane
And the wild and the reckless take up
With the clocked and the timed
That's the opening of a song written by lefty icon Woody Guthrie in 1942. The music was never recorded or set to paper, so when Guthrie died the music was lost. He did write down the words, and more than a half century later Billy Bragg, a noted leftist himself, set those lyrics to music, with spectacular results.
I wonder if Guthrie weren't a leftist if he would be so fondly remembered. Better still, what would happen if a musician sang those words today?
Posted by Walter at March 4, 2004 10:05 PM