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Woody Guthrie wrote around about 1,000 song lyrics that never got published or set to music in his lifetime. Woody couldn’t read or write music so there were no notations indicating how he would want them to sound. Bob Dylan said Woody told Bob to go to New York and look up his wife Margie and get the boxes of song lyrics and set them to music, but Dylan said that when he got to the house, only Woody’s son Arlo and the babysitter were home, so he went away empty-handed.

Much later on, Woody’s daughter gave them to Billy Bragg and he set some to music and recorded them with the band Wilco. The album is named after the address on Coney Island where Woody used to live.

If you have any questions about why a guy would write a song titled: Ingrid Bergman, watch the screen test again.

If you’ll walk across my camera
I will flash the world your story
I will pay you more than money, Ingrid Bergman

Not by pennies dimes nor quarters
But with happy sons and daughters
And they’ll sing around Stromboli, Ingrid Bergman