Pastures of Plenty - Old Woody Guthrie Cover

I dedicate the song to all my ancestors/migrants who came to the USA with the Red Star Line to find a better life.
- One Voice
- One home-made 5string tambourine banjo

Pastures of Plenty
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

It's a mighty hard row that my poor hands have hoed
My poor feet have traveled a hot dusty road
Out of your Dust Bowl and Westward we rolled
And your deserts were hot and your mountains were cold

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes
I slept on the ground in the light of the moon
On the edge of the city you'll see us and then
We come with the dust and we go with the wind

California, Arizona, I harvest your crops
Well its North up to Oregon to gather your hops
Dig the beets from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine
To set on your table your light sparkling wine

Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground
From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down
Every state in the Union us migrants have been
We'll work in this fight and we'll fight till we win

It's always we rambled, that river and I
All along your green valley, I will work till I die
My land I'll defend with my life if it be
Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free

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Comment by W.M. Peterson on January 28, 2014 at 10:34am: Thx, Calim ! Chrz !

Comment by Calim on January 28, 2014 at 6:23am: great !!!!

Comment by W.M. Peterson on January 20, 2014 at 7:41am: Thx, Nance, glad you like it ! Chrz WMP

Comment by Nancy kat on January 20, 2014 at 7:11am: Yup really good W.M~P~ Like the old pictures!~Meowwancestorwwww^^

Comment by W.M. Peterson on January 20, 2014 at 1:34am: thx WES !

Comment by W.M. Peterson on January 19, 2014 at 8:21pm: Thx, Steve, Wolf, Turtlehead, Uncle John ! Chrz. WMP

Comment by Steve Mattox on January 19, 2014 at 7:26pm: YEP VERY GOOD STUFF..............

Comment by Clock The Wolf on January 19, 2014 at 1:41pm: ๏ ๏ Is that you, Bob Dylan?!?!?!

Comment by turtlehead on January 19, 2014 at 4:30am: Good old sound there W.M.

Comment by Uncle John on January 19, 2014 at 3:46am: I knew this would be good. Yup.

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