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Green Pastures of Plenty

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Woody Guthrie was a vagrant American folk singer from the mid 20th century. He penned this song in a period of American history beset by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, a period of American history where migrant workers were being targeted by the oppression of a wealthier class that sought to benefit exorbitantly from their labour.

This song is a call to arms for the the common man, and to defenders of freedom and free soil everywhere. “My land I’ll defend with my life if need be/‘cause my pastures of plenty must always be free.”

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It’s a mighty hard row that my poor hands have hoed
My poor feet have traveled a hot dusty road
Out of your Dust Bowl and westward we rolled
And your deserts were hot and your mountains was cold


California and Arizona, I make all your crops
And its north up to Oregon to gather your hops
Dig the beets from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine
To set on your table your light sparkling wine

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes
Slept on the ground in the light of your moon
On the edge of the city you’ll see us and then
We come with the dust and we go with the wind


Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground
From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down
Every state in this Union us migrants have been
We’ll work in this fight and we’ll fight till we win


Well it’s always we rambled, that river and I
All along your green valley, I will work till I die
My land I’ll defend with my life if it be
‘Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free

credits

from Slavalachia, released April 24, 2022
Musicians:
Artur Temchenko - drum, percussion
Benya Stewart - mandolin, vocals
Brother Hill - vocals, guitar, bodhran
Marichka Chichkova - vocals, concertina, cello
Marta Bodnar - vocals, fiddle
Siarzhuk Douhushau - vocals, flutes, hurdy-gurdy
Sviat Halas - bass guitar
Producer and band manager: Nadzeya Ilkevich
Documentary production team: Bart Kuraga & Quintin Schomaker
Recorded, Mastered and Mixed: Shpytal Records (Ternopil, Ukraine)
Contacts: slavalachia@gmail.com
Website: slavalachia.com

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Slavalachia is an alliance of folk musicians from Belarus, Ukraine, and the Appalachian region of the USA whose mission is to create revolutionary new pathways for cultural alliance and exchange.

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