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That's when I went to the crossroads
and made a big deal.
:52:05
You know, like...
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One night and then
went back to Minneapolis...
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and it was like, "Hey, where's this guy been?
:52:17
"You've been to the crossroads".
:52:32
I wasn't seeing Woody Guthrie anymore.
:52:34
I was still singing a lot of his songs...
:52:35
but I'd replaced them with
a lot of the other songs, all of a sudden.
:52:39
I kind of went through Woody Guthrie
in a kind of way.
:52:41
But I didn't really want
to go through Woody Guthrie.
:52:43
I didn't want to feel that
it was something just negligible.
:52:47
Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie,
I wrote you a song
:52:53
About a funny ol' world that's a-coming
along
:52:59
Seems sick and it's hungry,
it's tired and it's torn
:53:06
It looks like it's a-dyin'
:53:10
and it's hardly been born
:53:12
But I really cared, I really wanted to portray
my gratitude in some kind of way.
:53:18
But I knew that I was not gonna be
going back to Greystone anymore.
:53:23
I felt like I had to write that song.
I did not consider myself a songwriter at all.
:53:28
But I needed to write that
and I needed to sing it.
:53:33
So that's why I needed to write it.
:53:36
'Cause it hadn't been written and that's what
I needed to say, I needed to say that.
:53:40
Here's to Cisco and Sonny
and Lead Belly, too
:53:46
And to all the good people
that traveled with you
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Here's to the hearts
and the hands of the men
:53:59
that come with the dust