Lyrics

Happy birthday Woody Guthrie I've been singing all your songs Been following your foot steps Down the dusty road alone And I've met all your family At least the ones that'd let me close Happy birthday Woody Guthrie [??] Happy birthday Woody Guthrie I think you're as cool as cool can be And after all this time we still need ya can't you see Things are so much different Things are so much the same Happy birthday Woody Guthrie I think you'd be ashamed Happy birthday Woody Guthrie You still showing us the way Singing all the things that everyone was scared to say And you took up for the farmers And the migrant workers too Happy birthday Woody Guthrie I wish I could be like you On your hundredth birthday I sat down with your daughter Nora And she spoke to me like you would And her eyes looked just like yours She's teaching me philosophies and things I already knew She said "no you don't, but I could tell you, just what G should do" She said "give your standing [??] to the garbage man that goes To the mother and the teacher To the cabby on the road Cause you're no more important son Than anyone in this town Cause it takes everyone to make the world go round" Someday Woody Guthrie I hope that we can make you proud