Joan Baez (3/24/07)
"My Home Is Across The Blue Ridge Mountains" performed in Bonn, Germany.
let there be songs to fill the air
Written in 1944 by Woody Guthrie. (Also known as "Talking Merchant Marine")
But I remember us riding in my brother's car,
Her body tan and wet down by the reservoir.
At night on those banks I'd lie awake
And hold her close just to feel each breath she'd take.
Now those memories come back to haunt me.
They haunt me like a curse.
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true?
Or is it something worse
That takes me down to the river
Though I know that the river is dry.
That takes me down to the river tonight..."
--Bruce Springsteen (from "The River ")
Lonnie Donegan and the Skiffle Group perform a classic Woody Guthrie song in a 1957 television appearance.
"So if you find someone
who gives you all of her love,
take it to you heart.
Don't let it stray.
One thing's for certain,
you will surely be a'hurting
if you throw it all away."
--Bob Dylan (from "I Threw It All Away")
First public performance of "Blowin' In The Wind" from WBC-TV studios, May 1963.