Published on May 8, 2016
In
December 1950, Woody Guthrie moved to an apartment building in Brooklyn
– Beach Haven Apartments. His landlord: Fred Trump, father of Donald
Trump.Woody Guthrie wrote these lyrics in 1951, and 65 years later, the Missin' Cousins, a County-Western music group from Oakland California, present a recording of these new lyrics to I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore.
To read the fascinating story about where these lost Woody Guthrie lyrics about Old Man Trump came from, see this article by Woody Guthrie scholar professor Will Kaufman:
https://theconversation.com/
Fred Trump used US government millions to build post-war public housing, then became the landlord, and moved people of color out of their housing and neighborhoods. He kept people of color out of of his properties through racial codes, maintaining whites only housing policy into the early 1970's.
Old Man Trump made his millions creating the postwar racial codes that have produced the racist inequality that lives through this day.
In his two years at Beach Haven, Woody Guthrie witnessed Old Man Trump’s racist practices, and wrote some of his most bitter songs and lyrics, including a re-write of "I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore" aimed directly at Old Man Trump:
Link: https://youtu.be/8Z6OEqc0uS0
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