Woody Guthrie wrote and recorded it
Your first sentence should be a hook. Your second sentence should be your thesis statement and the rest should be what the body paragraphs should be about.
Answer:devour
Explanation:Devour according to Oxford dictionary refers eat all something quickly because you are extremely hungry this gives the same feeling or idea as the feeling provided by the word swallow .
Connotations refers to the feeling or an idea that we get from a certain word besides it's literally meaning.
When we hear the word swallow the idea that comes to mind is that someone just gobble up something and we get the same feeling with the word devour.
Connotations create an emotional attachment to that word.