#44 THE NATIONAL TOPICAL SONG ~~GAZINE APRIL 30, 1964 PRICE -- 35~

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By PEI'ER LAFARGE used ty permission

Words & Music: ~) 1964, by author

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shamed, And I come when they call "Billy" though I've

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Also In This Issue, Songs By:

NINA SIMONE, PErER SEEGER, ERIC ANDERSEN, TOM PAXTON, CARL WATANABE, WOODY GUTHRIE

Moderately VERSE

DRY

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Words and Music by WOODY GUTHRIE

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I waked up in a dry bed, Mom-my, come

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CHORUS

"'~ r fa r I [' r I Hey, look-it my dry bed!

Come feel my dry b'ed~ My bed's all dry, tJ IJ J dry; Ik a.

, ~ J go I r rU r I [' r I r r r I'r boy! Look, look- it my dry bed! Dry, dry my dry

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dry, I'm a My bed's all dry, big boy!

o Copyright i952 Ludlow Music, lnc., New York. N.Y.

This song is reprinted from the recently pub­lished "Nearly Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folk Songs .. " The "book has about 200 of Woody's songs, uses Woodyls drawings for illustrations.. It was

. compiled and edited by Pete Seeger, and m~ of the songs are from the collection of Marjorie Guthrie.. The songbook is published at $4.00 a copy by Ludlow Music, Inc., 10 Columbus Circle, New York City,N.Y.

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2. The rain didn't rain an wet my bed 1

Homsey, come seel River didn1t run

an wet my bed! Dadsey, hey, look 1

(CHO)

:3. Dry, dry bed an a heave an a hoI

Take me to the movie shaw I am a big boy nowl

(CHO 4. Pussycat didn't wet

my bed last nightl Sister came feell Puppy-dog didn I t make

my beddybed wetl Brother take a peekl

(CHO

5 .. Dry, dry bed an a yippy yippy yit

Take me down to the pony ridet

I am a big boy now! (CHO

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2 And vlhe n the y think the y t va changed me

Cut my hair to meet their needs \tiill they think: Ifm. \vhite oX'

'4. Lone P:~1e anG. Seqnioa Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull Mangas Colorado

Indian Quarter-blood or just half-breed Let me tell you, Hr. Teacher

With his sleeves so red and full Crazy Horse t the legend Those who b~t off Custer's soul They are dead, but yet they are

Hhen you say you'll make me right In 500 years of fighting

living \1ith the great Geronimo. (CRO)

Jot one Indian turned 111hite. (CRO) 3. You thought that I knew nothing ':Ihen you brought me here to school Just a~other empty Indian

,. You may teach me this landfs history

Just Americats first fool

But \-Ie taught it to you first Ue broke your hearts and bent

your journeys But I can tell you stories That are burnt and dried and old But in the shadow of their telling 'Ualks the thunder proud & bold. (C;m)

Broken treaties left us cursed Even now you have to cheat us Even though you think us tame In our losing we found proudness In your winning you found sham8.

(CHI)) • ________________ • __________________ , ____________________ R ________ _

TALKING SALESlfAN BLW..:3 By CARL vlATANABE c 1964 by author used by permission

I was sitting around "dithout any cares ~1hen in pops a salesman selling his wares He said, don't mean to bother you or anything But why don I t you buy this 'veddding ring? But I'm not married, I said to him, He said, Oh, please, I'm out on a limb, And tears fell down from those eyes of his His poor grandma~.~ had the rhuematiz ••• HovT can you say no to that? viall I polished my ring with a swish and a rub \lJhen in 1,1alks a guy f::'om the lonely hearts club. He said now, at this 10""" 1)riced rate t'Je can find you the ideal mate. Hov! do you like 'em, short or tall, Long hair, bouffant, or none at all? Fat, stocky slender or lean? t'j'e use a scientific computer machine .. l!achine must have broke do\V'n" .... got me a nineteen yeqr old Grandmother ••• likes to rassle alligators ..... they expect me To marry that? ••• Hal Hell me and my wife settled down In a little suburb at the end of town 'lilhen the doorbell rang and in come a guy That smashed all the furniturea hit me in the eye Put a hole in the wall~ set fire to the bed, Broke all the \vindows,' turned and said, Are you pre,ared 5 as he stomped on the cat For unforeseen aCCidents, just like that? You need insurance,. H something bad might happen! (Cont I d~ )

'l'LIKI.\G SALE8:U~N ;BLUES - ... 2

Vell we got insurance, me and my 'l.vife Against accidents and loss of life, For hurricanes, earthquakes, theft and fire, Floods and termites and. for when we retire. Well I thought that was about enou:;h Eut what about cyclones and oth~r stuff? vJhat vlOuld happen, he wanted to know If I got hi.t by a wild buffalo? In Oaklanrl? ", 'I ~lell, I am now covered against altercations With wild buffalo, .. In Oakland, California ..... If hit during daylight hours ..

iiIe 11, after that they wouldn t t stay away, Galesmen. coming both night and day .. 11y i;,r~.:~ e, she got fed up Hhen she h8d to buy a loving cup lIade of two~·toned go~d it Seems First it!s ye110'\1 and then it:s green .. vIe got magazines and bathroom. fbctU::::'8S And one fe 11a 'lrJanted. to to ~ce lIly bCJ by! s picture ~ Thatls the last straw~.Q my baby wGsntt even born yet! Positively indecentl Fell, I tried to st.-,p : em "1"lith dirty loo~{s But just ended. up;JY getttng i cyclops-:'.ia books Tried shootin Rt f em .. ~jut: it itl:1.::n I t much fun Ca\':'3e I endse. l'P by buyi.rJ.g a cr';'.nd ne", gun. he::'l, I final:.7 hit L'1e t·vJO 0:':' three Go·c sent tG 5811 for first d,3g3.'-".'8 Got reb.atlilit?ted socinJ.l;,Y G,J1 ... cut agatn a3 2. pEl:'oleo SSi~V:i.:1E a use:(u] pu:::'pose nOiv,.,, T sE'llBibles, Cookbooks an1 other' guides for graciooJ,s living.

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\lords: Bill Frederick, c 1964 Tune: The Commercial

L In 1~;1e Colum'o:i.an countl'ysidA" Coffee IS growin far and wide, Underneath thd ta:i.l shade trees, Owned by Yankee monopolies.

CEO: Coffee, bi.tter coffee~: Celiee of ColU!l1bia.

2., Juan Valdez, the coffee J1an, Picks the coffee beans by hand, Sends them to some folks up t.~re, And mattes 200 bucks a year.

(ClIO ) 3~ Juan is living very high,Too bad half his children die,

From malnutrition & disease,Underneath those tall shade trees., , (ClIO)

4,. J1:an Va.:..c,nz vlOrks hard all year. All the profits disa.ppear Up at Hadison Avenue,They stuff the coffee in cans for you.

(CRO) 5. ~lhen you oTlen a coffee can,Thir:k of Juan, the coffee man.

Every cup cf coffee says ilIl tIt the blood of Juan Va ldez." (CHO) BROADSIDE # 44

MISSISSIPPI rAnnA NINA SIMONE 11 Words & Musio By:

~uuvn, @ 1964 Sam Fox Pub10 Co. used by permission

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-.,...,.... +-:9- 7:." ~ -.,-Al-a-bama's got me so upse~ Tennessee made me lose my rest and

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~J'JltJ !;:i1rpprl;;;q pI t:f!7FJI EvI17 bo-d7 lmoW's a- bout Missis-sippi god-dam. Can't you see it, Can't

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reel it, tis all in the air;'-- I can't stand the pres - sure much longer

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some-one say a prayer. Al-a-bama's got me so upset, Tennessee made me

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lose my rest and Ev'ry body knows a-bout Missis-sip-pi god-dam. ,7 A~ . -Sd1111 ,

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That's just the trouble - Too slow, Washing the windows - Too slow,

J j r 1# r r 7 :D;Q j J vr I~ V r" Picking the cotton - Too slow, You're just plain rotten - Too slow, You're~ F~d-lm'1 "BJ~7ll1 E:-1 F1 --, ~ ..,

f f f FI~rt'l piC f' r Jl'*r fit! J ~ ;nf'l Too dam la-zy - Too slow, Your thinking's crazy - Too slow. Where am I go-ing,

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, , , a- bout Missis-sip-pi god-dam. (For v.2, D.S to t to CODA) Ev'ry body knows

t J t) a (tsTrfJ I!J t;uty1t-f1 FJ a- bout Missis-sippi, Ev'ry body knows a-bout Al-a- bama, Eviry body knows

t J t) £2] I fu, lsh1c~ p::,5' ('f /' - II a-bout Missis-sip-pi god - DAM.

2. Picket lines -- School boycott Try to say it's a Communist plot All I want is equality For my sister and brother, my people

and me

You lied to me all these years You told me to wash and clean my ears Talk real fine, dress like a lady And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie

But this whole country is corrupted with lies

You all should die and die like flies

That's the trouble (too slow) Desegregation----- (too slow) Mass participation (too slow) Unification------- (too slow) Do things gra.dually (too slow) Will bring-more tragedy (too slow) Why don't you see it, Why can't you feel it, I don't know, I don't know You don't have to live next to me Just give me Equality Everybody knows about Mississippi Everybody knows about Alabama Everybody knows about Mississippi I don't trust you any more

You keep on saying, II go slow. II BROADSIDE God-DAM #Aff

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2. live r~bled through your city 1've drifted through your town; 1've slept many a night in

your Greyhound. walls, Where the floor is as cold as

your ground., And there was no other bed to be found.

3. Your roadways hurt my feet, My' suitcase hurts my hand; Your highway sun bums rq facs, But I can't stop a-travel in

through your land.

4. I rambled through your southern country,

Where grief and sickness fill the air; I rambled. through your southern

country, There was children hungry everywhere, There was children hungry everywhere.

5. I watched your wealthy wheeler-dealers Who'd let a poor man freeze

right to the bone; Their money, whiskey, women never

leave their sides, But like the poor man,

they're bound to die alone, Bu.t like the poor man,

they're bound to die alone.

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10. Your box car ain't no feather bed, Your whistle ain't no lovebird's song; Your tracks ain't no ladder

to lIlY true love I s arms, But your train is the only home I own, But your train is the only home I own.

11. Oh, where is that man they call Jesus? He's never come a-knockin at my door; On my hands and my knees I've been searchin 'Bout the only thing I found

is my noor, 'Bout the only thing I found

is my noor.

BROADSIDE -IF..,""

RAMBLER I S LAMEN'l' -- 2 Eric Andersen

6. I heard your vote-mAn talkin promises ill about SORe things that never

occurred; I heard your vote-man talkin fear, 'Bout things I never saw,but only heard, 'Bout things I never saw,but only heard.

7. I saw your poets dyin in the glitters, Their mouths were broken and turned away; I saw your billboard with your

smilin politician Claimin' "These are better ~s," Claimin I "These are better daya.11

g. I met all your .fair and tender ladies, My face is like a key to their

front door; Though a rambler's a kind of man

they'd never marry, They'll keep on lovin you

a hundred times more, They'll keep on lovin you

a hundred times more.

9. Sometimes I may be sober, SOOIetimes I get warm a-drinkin wine; Your wind may be a-howlin

round my shoulder, And though my blood is froze,

I pacify lIlY mind; And though my blood is froze,

I pacify my mind.

12. You keep sayin a rambler's born to lose, Yet a gambler's born with a winnin hand; I try to close my ears,

when I hear that whistle blow, But I know I can't stop travelin

through my land, I know I can I t stop travel in

through my land.

MY HUDSON RIVER (Sailing Down Thi~ Dirty Stream)

dirty

T?a.t some--day,

2. At Glens Falls 5,000 honest hands Work at the consolidated paper plant Five million gallons of waste a day Why should we do it anyhother way? Down the valley one million toilet

chains Find my Hudson so cOTenient place

to drain Each little city says, "who me?" Do you think that sewage plants

come free?

3. In the great ocean they say the water's clear

But I live right at Beacon heree Halfway between the mountains

and the sea Tacking to and fro, this thought

occurs to me Sailing up my dirty stream Still I love it and I'll dream That some day, though maybe not

this year Yes, :my Hudson & my country will

run clear ..

Words & Music: By Peter Seeger @ 1964, Fall RiTer Music used by permission

BROADSIDE #44

WILLIE SETON 1

Seton was a lad, his age was just sixteen; Golden curls hung down his neck, the

T -e­fairest ever seen.

Words & Music:

Cherry Lane Music

Used by permission

R A I N

His true love was the prettiest thir£g 1."1 the countryside And after Willie courted her she swore to be his bride. He had no gold to give her dad, no gold to buy them land And in his haste to wed hie love he joined an outlaw band. They ravaged all the countryside their fortunes for to gain Until one cold and frosty day they robbed the Frisco train. The train guard lost his life that day but just before he died He fired a deadly pistol ball in Willie Seton's side. His comrades they deserted him and lett him there alone And holding tightly to his side he started out for home. Re had n~t traveled many a mile until a storm came on And Willie Seton found a log to set himself upon. He leaned his back against a tree and held onto his side And in that cold and snowy wood young Willie Seton died. He was sixteen when he loved, and sixteen when he cried Sixteen when he robbed that train, and sixteen when he died.

AND SNOW 'Words & Music: Tom. Paxton @ 1963, Cherry Lana Music Used b.Y permission C:F~

Rain and snow, cold winds blow, What can a poor boy do? - lUI alone and I

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2. I work in the fields, I work in the yard, Work for a migrant's pay When the job is done, I move right along Theylre hard on the ones that stay (CHO)

3 .. II d be your man, My sweet Sally Ann" I I d. sure try to look attar you But when they say" Thej,t's all they'll pay What can a hungry man do? (CHO)

lIThia is one of my favorites," Tom Paxton. Ours, too. BROADSIDE #44

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efe See er's r U,. RALP1I RI.md:"ENFEI~D

It W(\~ Friday night in Mos{:(fv,' ami 11)(> hottef.;l ticl,l'l in town wa;;; for ih,; open-ing ni "SlllgAlong \Vith p,'1c.'·

: Th('v jnmmf'd into 'fdl!'Iik()v .. ·.-----·--.-···-.~--···--··-----·-·----! for ml'--·a.nd f.or ilwJn:" f . . 4.y :Hali. filling 1.800 ",.'at!! .. nr! I , 'fhey ~allg):oo.ar.d tht-y ~ahg. i Now 44, St'!{!gel', one (It the I . -"pil1lng ov~'r ju~othe ajslt'.~ 10:\ So.ngs 1:"1' ,·~II"had, .. ~·h,W the; r(}\lnd€r~ of 'me Wfflo\\leN>. has I i Iwar A hWrJf:lI.ll {{Ilk sm~Wi Pelt'!i .}3';at Asho!.e, and < .,(1 l;{"n~; f bee~ \!t-:ujl~ly blacklisted 11'1 the i SI't'I.tt'l', begin hi~ Sovi<'l tour. ;i 1 t s BE"':!! (.()Od 10. 1<; no;!' ); OU. j U. S. smce the eArly McC.atthY'1

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: pearaftl't's ot the Bolshoi BaliN H ,<rna: la~~ O?p.. W~!; . tI:: fjr.~~" \ a 1955 contempt of C(lng.'eSi§ ;01' tIlt' M(\l.':'\~.r!.'v Dam.'!'.!:' in 1\'t'\\, • :,(~glU inl.O(h.efd .t.l1~ pOP.u,:,lI 1 conviction and one-yea)' pl'ison ; York. . ;;m Alt1ban:~ :md MIl>HS!lI}JP!.· ,. o;entence again$t Seegel' were ;. • 1 ll.;: jet It ~(j at i.hat anil till, I dismissed by tht! U. S. Court (If i They Lau" .. lIIItU; Slng !i f.lUdlcl'll.'t, bdlf'fl oUt lhe ('hm'u!' I Appeals. I I "Sing," Uff,f;d Seeger through; i .. ~ "'W t' J!.nall (,j'if'(cQmt" W~ s:hal! j \ an interpreter. "You al'tm'i open· II o ... efCul'li'~. weH walk hand in SitU ~nH .'rom TV : : ing your mouths wid., efl(lugh.l; hand ... !;on'!I.' day:' With the .folks(.l'Ig hoom in i ! I he-anI a Rl::d Army chon,;!; the ij "F!'h'l'ld,,;' S~l'galr said wlwn full swIng S~E'ger is a top ('tDn·! ! other night amI l'ht·y opened i l\ \>;IlS OW.'!', "thiF scn~ ji\ll't jU!4t {'eft star agnirt .... ·aftnough .litill j ! the-it' mOllths wi<ie. You do tho!> t ff;]' the J;f'i:tllle IIf Alabama and b:u'r!>d from TV. His s(llo So-: ; samt','" Missls~jflPi. It's tor you- ·and r ."jet tour will last until tile firsll

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:;)AN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Wednesday. Mar. II, P~64 The . City cOm!!, at itim __ ~ Nght, eslablir.hed an arcldteclure eo __ ... study in depth aU ,~ntb, use permitl .. ,... toJl.ifig 3ppUeation.lI. Its member, Ire CoweJI. men Edward Demtts and BetRlrd Lye.. .

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Boxes For Iy

Aceordin, in !\1.1lyo:r 1\UehaeI DeBerari ... cOllunhtee will use the cowteU', "power " per. miasit)u" ~ msllt that developert preMllt mon compieklllaD8 Iud uPlrade their JWIPeny witit ItDdseapmg. . #

"We dou't WaDi tbe arta k de ... elo, me. a IJedes of box.,s," the !\-fayor .aid • HttIe UgUy.

Mrs. Re,Yl!oldl ~ her WI btl tue '"lJttk; BI)xe," whU~ drhinl till'Ou,h Daly City.'

A Folk-Singing Social Critic I

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TIE FIRS'!' law of mass meml1 is to u",menn thl.~ . srtistk pt'oduC't.. l"hnt :Is why noets can't write fen:

newslni11{!l'!\ and Time maJ'!arlne's stories .,re never .l:lbout }"('ality but {lhout some ne,(!r·r,eV€j' Lucdand in the sky,

I I f 11ms . S;jHlrdt1~' nightf ll ~OlICf'rt at tnt') f.l~~r'kelty

CnllHl'l!lnity T'u.'ater by Bob Dylan wall ('specially ttotable. /flit: pressllI'es fJJ mllSS media and mnss cu11ure bave nut yet forCf:c Dyllln to De anything but himsdf and Dylan Ilhnsclf is a lean. economieat. a!ltrlngeut clash of reality in til stage world that's m.ly pretense.

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A paf:ked. hc,ll.'\(' heard him iSing his songs (If mion and warning, heard him grind the emutions in direct conirontation& with hY!l1)crlsy and heard him celebrate his belief :in life with the flashing signs or poet.ry. And 11 W,I" M!10 the kR'l poetry for being delivered in a llasal VOlce by a slim youth 'with uncombed l;air wesring I) cham.ois jllcket, blue jeans al'ldboots.

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Genius makes its own roles and. Dylan is it geliius, a sillgrng {'onsciNiec ~nd ul()ral referee as well al a pfl: adler , it's not williout si.gnificance that a young man ,'eU)Ul'kNI Sattll'day night that, fm.· him, going to chureh meant gQing to a. Dylan co:nc~.rt.

n}lan'~ ll"eciat gift liei in the creation 1)£ poetie 'ma~~!s that clearly pose the moral dDemmai uf our !iocjet~·. in his sl)n~ about the death u{ boxer Davey 1\I1)Or6, Dylan £.;l\~.§ "thill is a true story. tnly tile ftrQs ! bave hi'.'ell dHlllged.'~ And he Siil~S the r(>fraia 'Iaon't , SflY murdecl", don't r-:ay kut It ,,,tiS Dellti'l!/, It \Ta$: I Hod's wHl." As any rational citizen knows. navel' 1\-!00l'i!I I was vlctim of thi" insatiahle "\\lwrJean crtH'Vd..Jnst for blnnd. If WI~ 'WC1'e a tn!'(y mo,ral pe';.lple, thert womd bt: no pr(.fesSi'H1ai lin::dug. I

'* '* * D VLA]\,S songs arc: cGH".;e\l [rum t!h~ .i"N:lilv nr the . Am~l'i(:;m dn~am l'<)l1trasted to the unreality of nO\\'

it is. And Dyhm sings them out of hi!> l}wn exiie!'ie:n(;~, That he 1s irjgl1h'nlngly yt.limg )S ll'l'elpvant; th.~t he has het-'ll mllde ... ·in, hj' a poetic y\sion m truth ill what's important. "The dht of gnssil' blow!'. into my face and th{\ dust of rumor (~o\'el'S me • , ."

}'oUt mllsic IS 1m much. big Imsincss 51ltceas today that it is a m;.jor part of sllow busmesiJ. We have folt 5ing~rs sprouting like weOOI--!!Ome gtIGd .m,enud som~ good performers. What Dylan has is the poet·s ability to trans-mit a me$llage. Hi! II the persona! htmesty of a Lenl1Y Brnee. Btl makes you thlnk; be !lIets lnslde YOll and you C!eu't tttm It off "'hen ytJu Wive Ute hall. His ~ntl..perionn!mce Ptl~ lymbo&eJ the dllM11t of his genM.'atfon for the tOllven'Uont we U\'e Jived by a'ftd in favor of truth.

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'* '* THE rs~,~L w~rds do not fit Dylan. }t:xcit.in, is not right; (;l.stut'bmg \1> more accurate. He is a cbaris~

matie sociai symbol to his geMration, the voi<:e protest­ing the {;ompromises of the adult world they never made. it ,has a\wa~;s heen thus, but Dylan's generation, it e;tr.lket; . m1?. !las !Unrt'! st!'(;ngth and more moral right gti!ng for it

He 1$ it magnificent songwriter (his reperion Is till }usl)wn, like EtUn!;,<ton and Monk) od he aug a grt'at new !'lmg, "(;l1iIDti ur Freetiolll,.. Sa.ttmby Dlght. f

He is g)'Mu~J.iy forming his vole~ mto an effective 1 lnsi.tUl.l1t'llt hl' the subtleties ol his songs. ills hatnlonica pl<1~J!)g I find more and more impre~i'l;'e on further rJ<"aill1g and Ilis guitar acc(lmptulilnent is adequate .for hi:i porfol'l'l1allt:('.

Wh(:Ill fin;t lieura nob DyJan at .Mcnterer I did 110' llkl'J bl.m~ i was de,ll, He il tnlly It 1ft8' arilgt utl .. Judge him by tile ml,uuiards of others fI a total mlttAke. He iii sui gent'lr~, a tmt J~n.er. B\'It net Ii mDo.,..lJt. 0.11 stag!' with Jo.n Blez be is it ehamJD,. ,mall be)' full nf a deUgbt that beUet the tei1d11lW Qf hi. message.

Together they were magnificent Saturday mgbt and DylAn alone is one of tte great wanslltg VOices of Ollr time. In hig smallboy's, anti-formal maJ'Ulet he til advocnting a moral and soeW revolution that J! long past due.

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T hI' kfH·lwr~ ill iwhllol Il!u~Jll Hl(' i:\('r~ lhillg "a~ lim';' sa,s Boil Dylan. "TIlllt ":liol ,lw .li~:(>t*'ll lhin~ to think. it W<I;: ii. all tlw hf"lol ... But it ain't !lUI", nll.III, 'HlI·r .... UI"I~ ",0 tllany lit,~ 'hllit ha\I' liN,

told. "ll iJl(my ihiuJ'"N thllt I.m~ kt'r'; hud •. Ki.l;; hil\l~ 1\ ft·dillt,\ tikI' I1W,

hUl ih .. ~ :Ain't lwarill' il 1111 plu\· ....

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On!.ts..§..t.ons ~ this issue: In "Hississippi Gotldam" .t,§.P...8€Lc }}l'~. shou11 8L .. close 3rd through 10th measures (sing hlice); J:!.tfL 2nd and 3rd totes, 9th meast4"'G ... ~. The Ralph Gleason article on Bob Dylan is repriLted from the F'eb .. 24, 1964, issue of the 5L"Lll ~!.+:aI1Cis,£0. Chr.QUkJ&.llI

The newly .... formed COUNCIL OF PERFORlUNG ARTISTS will give its first concert, a folk concert, on May 10, 19154, at HcMillan Hall, Colum­bia Uni7ersi-cy 1 New York City. It tolill be a benefit to raise ex­penses for a nntic.n::.l speaking tour by Berman Gibson, Hazard, Ky., miners f lea6.er.. Gibson '"ill speak on the depressed and bJ.le!1ted conditions around Hazard and the Appalachia region in generaJ.~ In addition to participating in the Hazard struggle, the Hnw C?A also will take part in PROJECT HISSISSIPPI this summer. It is asking performers throughout the country ~o donate one week of their time to go to Mississippi. They will "fork 1n intecrated groups before int~,;rated audiences. The COUtlCIL 1s open to performers in all realms of music -- jazzmen, classical artists, folk singers, etc~ \V'e plan to have a 10n&er a.rticle on the CPA in our next issue .r·1ean­tim. e~ those who wiSh. to particiPate.ln its work should write to Tom paxton, 49 Horton Street, New York City, N.Y. GUY CABAl/fAN is directing SING FOR FREEDOM A Fes~va,= ot fu!gm

.l.2li Uqslc i freedOM Songs, May 7th through 16th, 19, at the Gammon Theological Center Old Campus, Atlanta, Georgia. The ~est~v~l is spon­sored by the SNCC Office, 6 Raymond St., Atlanta, Ga. Song Fests will alternat~ with Workshop Sessions l the latter to include Song Loading (by FREEDOM SINGERS among others), and Songwriting. FoOd & Housing for the 4 days is $18,but some scholarships are available (Write the SNee Otfice)~ Guy issues a special invit~tion to Visitors trom the North. NOTES: MY HUDSON RIVER: Peter Seeger is receiving congratulations from Hudson River Valley residents for beine chosen this year to appear in "Who's \1ho In America". "1rites one business leader: "You lend prestige to our Hudson Va 11e1 area and tor. this we are proud If •• ~ Pete and his

family live 1n a handbuilt log cabin overlooking the river near Beacon, N.Y. ••• The CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION radio network recently made extensive use on one of its programs of the BROADSIDE BALLADJ Vol~ 2 L ... P (Falin·rays, Peter Seeger so 10). Uri tea tho producer, liAs entor­taining as. the songs are 011 theit' own, it seems they were simply cre­ated lor that kind of program" (on moods in America, '64). Amone songs used, Ualvina Reynolds r ftLittle Boxes t' and Tom Paxton's ',\,1111ing Con­Script" ~ "\-Jhat Did You Learn In School Todayll .... tiThe program receiv ... ed very favorable mention and reaction throughout Canada and from the States wi thin reach of our CDC transmitters" .... " THE NEW YORK UORLD SONG FESTIVAL (G.P.OI! Box 1374i New YOl"k,l N .. Y .. lOOOl,U.SiiA .. ) lsr\uming a worldwide song competition: st prize ~5,oOO; 2nd, $2,000; 3rd,$1,OOO and 4th,5th,6th, $;00 eaCh •. Sonc must h.e origlna11 musically and lyric­ally. Any number can be SUbmittedtbut oach with $, fee. Deadline: June 30,1964. For further details, wr te above address.G~

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BROADSIDE: P.O. Box 193, Cathedral Sta .. Not1 ~ork,I\T.1. l0025(,Contents copyrighted, 1964 ,fL:t9adside ,llilgazin¢l. Edi tor Sis Ct'.nningham; contr. editor:s":.Len Chandler .. Peter La Farge, Gil Turner, Bob Dylan Phil Ochs, Josh Dunson; Advisory: Pete Seeger. Topical songs, twIce ftlOnth ... 11 (about ••• except in summer, then monthly). Rates: 1 yr. $5.00; 5-issue trial $1.50; single oopies .35¢ each.