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Song «Pastures Of Plenty» von Woody Guthrie.
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Veröffentlichungsdaten: 1946 (Single), 1946 (Album)
Label: Disc 5010, Disc 610
Songwriter Woody Guthrie
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Genre: Americana - Folk
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Song zum Thema Dust Bowl Migration. Er bringt die typische Situation der Migranten zum Ausdruck: Sie verlieren ihr Land aufgrund einer Naturkatastrophe, migrieren quer durchs Land nach Kalifornien und arbeiten fortan als Lohnarbeiter in den Orangenplantagen. Den Stolz und die Identität, die sie bisher aus dem eigenen Boden gezogen haben, müssen sie von nun an aus der Lohnarbeit beziehen.
Der Song beruht auf der Mörderballade «Pretty Polly». Sein Stoff hat intertextuelle Bezüge zu «Grapes Of Wrath» (1939) von John Steinbeck.
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Lyrics
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 were cold I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes I slept on the ground in the light of the moon On the edge of the city you'll see us and then We come with the dust and we go with the wind California, Arizona, I harvest your crops Well 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 Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down Every state in the Union us migrants have been We'll work in this fight and we'll fight till we win 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