Help!... I need somebody HELP! not just anybody Help I need some one who can answer my question. Which statement from This Land
Was Made for You and Me best shows how Woody Guthrie’s life influenced him to write songs full of hope and love? He’d stick out his thumb and hitchhike, swing onto moving freight trains, and hunker down with other traveling men in flophouses, hobo jungles, and Hoovervilles across Depression America.
Promoters and club owners wanted him to follow their tightly written scripts and sing the melodious, popular songs that were on the radio.
Woody was full of impassioned ideas about what was wrong with the country and how to fix it.
When his good friend Pete Seeger heard the recording, he thought the song was one of Woody’s weaker attempts.
He’d stick out his thumb and hitchhike, swing onto moving freight trains, and hunker down with other traveling men in flophouses, hobo jungles, and Hoovervilles across <u><em>Depression America.</em></u>
