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Yonnie3

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Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:53 PM Monday

Woody Guthrie All You Fascists Bound To Lose

I chanced across this tonight because YouTube suggested this after I viewed going down the road feeling bad.

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OAITW r.2.0

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1. Woody also penned "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad"
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:59 PM
Monday

One of the great pairs in the Dead's repertoire were - Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly) -> Woody's GDTRFB.

On edit" Geez, I should have read your OP more attentively. You already knew my point, lol.

Yonnie3

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3. the back story ...
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:37 PM
Monday

I was mentioning something to my partner that happened 50 plus years ago on the farm. Two of our neighbors from the adjacent farm were in our kitchen. The lived without running water or electricity, They had an old horse and a lame mule that pulled a cart when they wanted supplies. Some one was playing that song from the Dead and Jimmy hops up and says I know that song and grabs a guitar with great gusto and sang a different version of Goin' down the road feeling bad. I was looking for an earlier version and that's why I was listening to Woody, but it is not his song. It was a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin.

Yonnie3

(19,504 posts)
4. The earliest known recording of the song was 1924 as Lonesome Road Blues
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:50 PM
Monday
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OAITW r.2.0

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6. Great post. I'm sure this was a tune of unknown provenance...but one that resonated with a lot of people in this era.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:58 PM
Monday
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