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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Arlo Guthrie Lyrics
Fencepost Blues Words and music by Arlo Guthrie Sitting down on a country…
Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad No. 16 Blues Woke up this morning with my head in my hand Come…
I Could Be Singing [Chorus:] I could be singing forever I guess you could say I…
I Want To Be Around Remember back when I was born High up in the sky Looking…
If You Would Just Drop By Words and music by Arlo Guthrie Friends I used to know…
Introduction Loose the bonds that tie me Let the world I live…
Lay Down Little Doggies CHORUS: LAY DOWN, LITTLE DOGGIES, LAY DOWN WE'VE BOTH GOT TO…
Percy's Song Bad news, bad news, come to me where I sleep Turn,…
Valley to Pray Adapted by Doc Watson, Additional adaptation by John Pilla a…
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