{"id":9891,"date":"2025-08-01T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2025-08-01T06:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:45:59","slug":"pastures-of-plenty-lyrics-by-woody-guthrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9891","title":{"rendered":"Pastures of Plenty &#8212;&#8212;     Lyrics By Woody Guthrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Pastures.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">m4a: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Pastures.m4a\"><br \/>\nPastures of Plenty &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<p>Woody Guthrie wrote this song in 1941 to celebrate the migrant workers described in John Steinbeck&#8217;s &#8220;The Grapes of Wrath.&#8221; The tune is taken from the Appalachian murder ballad &#8220;Pretty Poly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A home recording of Woody Guthrie singing this and other compositions of his was discovered recently and is soon to be released.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/geoff-edgers\">Geoff Edgars of the Washington Post wrote a nice article on the subject.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n[Dm] It&#8217;s a mighty hard row that my poor hands have hoed<br \/>\nMy poor feet have traveled a hot dusty road<br \/>\nOut of your Dust Bowl and Westward we rolled<br \/>\nAnd your deserts were hot and your [C] mountains was [Dm] cold<\/p>\n<p>I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes<br \/>\nI slept on the ground in the light of the moon<br \/>\nOn the edge of the city you&#8217;ll see us and then<br \/>\nWe come with the dust and we go with the wind<\/p>\n<p>California, Arizona, I harvest your crops<br \/>\nWell its North up to Oregon to gather your hops<br \/>\nDig the beets from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine<br \/>\nTo set on your table your light sparkling wine<\/p>\n<p>Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground<br \/>\nFrom the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down<br \/>\nEvery state in the Union us migrants have been<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll work in this land and we&#8217;ll fight till we win<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always we rambled, that river and I<br \/>\nAll along your green valley, I will work till I die<br \/>\nMy land I&#8217;ll defend with my life if it be<br \/>\nCause my pastures of plenty must always be free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>m4a: Pastures of Plenty &#8211; Click To Play Woody Guthrie wrote this song in 1941 to celebrate the migrant workers described in John Steinbeck&#8217;s &#8220;The Grapes of Wrath.&#8221; The tune is taken from the Appalachian murder ballad &#8220;Pretty Poly.&#8221; A home recording of Woody Guthrie singing this and other compositions of his was discovered recently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pastures of Plenty &#8212;&#8212;     Lyrics By Woody Guthrie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9908,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions\/9908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}