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woody guthrie's sole (& stark af) recording of "deportee," from 1951-1952, written a few years earlier. martin hoffman wrote the more familiar music later. from the cool new demos collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlr-Rj9VwA
incidentally (or not), these demos exist because the weavers scored a big pop hit with (a cleaned up) "so long it's been good to know ya" & a publishing company signed woody & bought him a tape deck, hoping for more. many woody stories in my weavers bio: https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/jesse-jarnow/wasnt-that-a-time/9780306902079/ #folk
