Here’s an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html

Relevant paragraph:

Woody Guthrie’s guitar didn’t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.

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    I’d recommend all Americans to check out the verses they don’t teach you in school.

    There’s several versions, but they go something like this:

    One Sunday morning in the shadow of a steeple  
    By the relief office I saw my people  
    As they stood hungry, I stood there asking  
    Was this land made for you and me?  
    
    There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me  
    Sign was painted, saying "private property" 
    But on the back side it didn't say nothing  
    That side was made for you and me