Chopping Wood by Pete Seeger & David Bernz
Author:Pete Seeger & David Bernz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jawbone
Published: 2024-05-03T00:00:00+00:00
One day while walkinâ down forty-fifth street
I ran into a guy who looked dead on his feet
He had no green button or smile on his face
Kept pushinâ a truck round, kept gettingâ no place
Heâs a fool (heâs a fool)
Heâs a fool (heâs a fool)
Heâs a fool for not joining the union
Theyâd get a whole crowd of people singing that. It had several verses about how he finally wises up and he joins the union. The last chorus was:
Heâs no fool (heâs no fool)
For he up and he joined with the union.
I learned that song around 1941, when Woody Guthrie and Lee Hays and Millard Lampell and me and some others formed a group called The Almanac Singers, and weâd sing that song around.
My younger half-sister, Peggy Seeger, sings songs about work. Like me, she came out of a very academic background, her father a musicologist and mother a composer of avant-garde string quartets, but then she hitched up with Ewan McCall. In my opinion, sheâs one of the more talented songwriters of this century. Her song âIâm Gonna Be An Engineerâ is known all around the English-speaking world now.
Sheâs written a lot of other good songs too, and sheâs written songs about work, and Iâm sure sheâs sung lullabies to her kids, so sheâs sung work songs. But Iâm curious. I guess I got to ask Peggy, âDid you ever think of writing a song to make dishwashing easier, or scrubbing the floor easier?â Iâve washed dishes and Iâve scrubbed floors, and I have to confess Iâve never made up a song for it.
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