{"id":409,"date":"2016-03-13T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2017-03-28T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T01:06:29","slug":"pretty-boy-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/pretty-boy-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie\/Pete Seeger)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pretty Boy Floyd\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UaRupLseCaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>As through this world you travel, you\u2019ll meet lots of funny men.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These days I hear those lines in Woody Guthrie\u2019s voice, but the first time I heard \u201cPretty Boy Floyd\u201d was on <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-407\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-Gazette-298x300.jpg?resize=254%2C256\" alt=\"Seeger Gazette\" width=\"254\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-Gazette.jpg?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-Gazette.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Seeger-Gazette.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/>Pete Seeger\u2019s <em>Gazette<\/em> LP, and I\u2019m guessing that was true for a lot of people in the late 1950s and early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Pete recorded <em>Gazette<\/em> in 1958, shortly after splitting with the Weavers for the last time. He was waiting to go on trial for contempt of Congress, after refusing to testify about his politics or his friends &#8212; and unlike virtually all the other \u201cunfriendly\u201d witnesses, he set a unique precedent by basing his refusal on the First Amendment, arguing that freedom of speech includes the right to be silent.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tough time for him in a lot of ways, but also liberating: he had stood up to the witch-hunters and was probably headed for jail, so he had nothing to lose by speaking his mind. The result was his first full album of topical songs since leaving the Almanac Singers in the early 1940s. Most of the songs were recent compositions\u2014and if you were looking for the beginning of the protest song and singer-songwriter movements that blossomed in the 1960s, <em>Gazette <\/em>is as good a starting point as any.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-412 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pretty-Boy-Floyd.jpg?resize=120%2C138\" alt=\"Pretty Boy Floyd\" width=\"120\" height=\"138\" \/>\u201cPretty Boy Floyd\u201d was the first song on that album, and there were two other Guthrie songs, along with one by Malvina Reynolds, one by Tom Lehrer, and a lot by people whose names and songs\u00a0 are little remembered, like Vern Partlow and Les Rice. It was on Folkways Records, with a particularly good booklet giving notes and context for each song. \u201cPretty Boy Floyd\u201d was accompanied by newspaper clippings about Floyd\u2019s death at the hands of Federal agents and a quote from Ma Joad in <em>The Grapes of Wrath:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ma-joad.jpg?resize=157%2C218\" alt=\"ma joad\" width=\"157\" height=\"218\" \/><em>I knowed Purty Boy Floyd. I knowed his ma. They was good folks. He was full a hell, sure, like a good boy oughta be&#8230;. He done a little bad thing an\u2019 they hurt &#8216;im, caught &#8216;im an&#8217; hurt him so he was mad, an&#8217; the nex&#8217; bad thing he done was mad, an&#8217; they hurt &#8216;im again. An&#8217; purty soon he was mean-mad. 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