2:21
single, 1942
Written by Woody Guthrie
This anthem starts off as a tall-tale braggadocio and then gets serious. He starts off in Year One building the Rock of Ages, picking apples in the Garden of Eden, building the pyramids and freeing the Israelites ("I opened up the ocean let the migrant children through"). Then he mentions a few historical battles, until getting to the real heart of the song: beating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. "We'll stop the Axis rattlesnakes and thieves of old Nippon / And that will be the biggest thing that man has ever done." I'm sure there are other versions with different verses, and there's no way of knowing which this one is.
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