Woody Guthrie "This Land Is Your Land". He said it was a response to what he felt was the overplaying of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on the radio. Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children. His son Arlo Guthrie became nationally known as a musician. Guthrie died in 1967 from complications of Huntington's disease. His first two daughters also died of the disease. During his later years, in spite of his illness, Guthrie served as a figurehead in the folk movement, providing inspiration to a generation of new folk musicians, including mentoring Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan. Guthrie
Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie song) how I felt about the rich folks and the poor ones." Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie song) "Jesus Christ" is a song written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie. The song argues that Jesus would have been killed by modern capitalist society much as he was in his own time. The song was partially sung and played on the piano by the Guthrie character in the biographical film "Bound For Glory", set to the same tune as the folk ballad "Jesse James". "I wrote this song looking out of a rooming house window in New York City in the winter of Nineteen