I had a good time on last Wednesday. I hope you did, as well. In fact, I had a good enough time to consider expanding the experiment through the end of this week. You'll see I have added a third set of songs, moving us closer to the end of the book. You'll also see that I've changed the color of the songs which we explored last class. I won't call on anyone who has a song with the name in green on their line. I will encourage more volunteers, and I'll be looking forward to your analysis of the words and the Videos, or other information you find about the songs to heighten our knowledge of them and their importance
I'm also going to into the game a bit myself. I'll take the next three song in the text and research them right now. Following that, I"ll add a few more to my own resource folder. Thanks very much for making this fun for me and for increasing my knowledge by leaps and bounds.
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
You'll find the lyrics by clicking on the Songs of Protest and Politics image, and also another version of the song. Note the lyrics aren't quite the same on the two websites. His isn't at all unusual for protest songs, including songs of the Dustbowl, of which this is one. .
The next song in the table of contents is "Going down the Road Feeling Bad". So I'll make that my first contribution. The authors write:
Driven from their homes by dust storms and grasshoppers and mortgage companies, they loaded their few possessions into broken-down jalopies and headed down the road "looking for a job at honest pay." They were America's "displaced persons" long before the term DO became a familiar label in the Old World. They were the Joads, whose tragic history was immortalized by John Steinbeck in Grapes of Wrath.
Our class is to short to watch the film, but I'd be delighted if you'd watch it. There are a couple versions on YouTube. This one has the text appended.
