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LindberghBelow are the lyrics to a typical Woody Guthrie masterpiece, “Lindbergh,” which castigates Charles Lindbergh for his involvement in the America First Committee. Guthrie, who had a sticker on his guitar that read, “This Machine Kills Fascists,” was disgusted at the site of an American hero’s involvement in a movement that seemed anti-Semitic and appeasing of German aggression. Lindbergh himself had arelationship with Nazi Germany that has cast a pall over his legacy, although he firmly supported the war once it began. |
Mister Charlie Lindbergh, he flew to old Berlin, Misses Charlie Lindbergh, she come dressed in red, Lindy said to Annie: “We’ll get there by and by, Hitler wrote to Lindy, said “Do your very worst,” All around the country, Lindbergh he did fly, Lindy said to Hoover: “We’ll do the same as France: Then they had a meetin’, and all the Firsters come, Yonder comes Father
Coughlin, wearin’ the silver chain, Mister John
L.
Lewis would sit
and straddle a fence, Hitler said to Lindy: “Stall ‘em all you can, Then on a December mornin’, the bombs come from Japan, Lindy tried to join the army, but they wouldn’t let ‘im in, So I’m gonna tell you people: If Hitler’s gonna be beat, And I’m gonna tell you workers, ‘fore you cash in your checks: |
sources http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKSanwNEVmI
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& http://www.xefer.com/2003/01/lindbergh |