Tao seeger5/8/2023 Similarly, the song in the book was changing before it was written down and kept on changing after it was written down." "My father used to say, 'A folk song printed in a folksong book is a little like a picture of a bird in flight in a bird book.' You knew the bird was flying, flapping its wings before that picture was taken and it kept on flapping its wings. Somebody will sing a song, it's a good song, here's somebody else singing it - they've got different verses, different tune. "I got a chance to appreciate the different ways of singing the same song. On traveling and learning songs from different people I knew a few chords and I got through the rest of the summer playing the guitar." Fortunately, I had a camera with me and I hocked it in a local pawn shop and bought a very cheap guitar, didn't have a banjo then. "Woody said, 'Wait on the outskirts of town and when the train is picking up speed, it's still not going too fast, you can grab a hold of it and swing on.' Getting off the first time I didn't know how to do it and I fell down and skinned my knees and elbow and broke my banjo.
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