Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk… Read Full Bio ↴Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.
His most famous work is Alice's Restaurant, a talking blues song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up.
His most famous work is Alice's Restaurant, a talking blues song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up.
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Hobo's Lullaby
Arlo Guthrie Lyrics
1913 Massacre Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, Michiga…
Anytime Anytime you're feelin' lonely Anytime you're feelin' blue An…
City of New Orleans Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday m…
Days Are Short Days are short, and I ain't down The sun is on…
Hobo's Lullaby o to sleep you weary hobo Let the towns drift slowly…
Lightning Bar Blues [Chorus] I don't need no diamond ring I don't need no Cadi…
Shackles and Chains On a long lonesome journey I'm going Oh darling, and please…
Somebody Turned on the Light I've been to wild Montana I went there in a storm My…
Ukulele Lady I saw the splendor of the moonlight On Honolulu Bay…
When the Ship Comes In Oh, the time will come up when the winds will…
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