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What Does Woody Guthrie's Name Represent

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Woody Guthrie wrote many songs about people being put down and had many sayings in his life. One of I think his best sayings was “ I’m out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood”. Woody Guthrie himself supported lots of poor people in his life because he knew what it felt like to be poor. You can tell because in 1940 he wrote “ This land is your land”. Also there are a lot of differences and comparison between his quotes and songs.

There are some similarities and differences between Woody Guthrie's inspirational quote and the song. The first similarity is the quote and the song have the same meaning.The second similarity is is the song and the quote have sayings in it that supports poor

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