13.02.81 Starkville, Miss., intro to ´Independence Day´
´´When I was…when I was 18, I was so glad to finally get out of the house….I remember I, I moved down about 20 miles away from my hometown, I moved down along the beach ….and I was sure that once, once I had the chance….I was never gonna wanna go back there….to see the people that….I grew up with….and…my folks moved away to California ….and for a long time….I never missed them, I never missed that place….after I started traveling, I´d come back home….and I´d always end up getting in the car and driving…. driving down through that old town….and I could never figure out, understand what made me always wanna go back there….I remember I´d feel, I´d drive down the streets I grew up on….I´d see all these strangers…and it seems that…. that after a long time I figured, I realised that if I couldn´t…if I wasn´t gonna be able to go back there and deal with that place….and go back to my folks and deal with my …. deal with them….that I was never gonna be able to deal with myself….it seems like you always gotta leave home….and then you always gotta go back….just even….even if it´s just to make sure that it ain´t there no more….this is for everybody away from home ..”
13.02.81 Starkville, Miss., intro to ´This Land Is Your Land´
´´This is a song that was written by….Woody Guthrie and….there´s a book out now, it´s called Woody Guthrie - A Life….it´s by Joe Klein….it´s a real good book….and this song, this was….this song has been mis, I think, misinterpreted a lot over the years and it was, uh….was originally written….as an answer to ´God Bless America´ and….the thing about this song is, is it was….this is a, it was a fighting song because you´ve gotta….especially these days you gotta fight to make this true….”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi