Patell and Waterman’s History of New York » Seeger http://ahistoryofnewyork.com Being a ... course, companion, blog, and book. Tue, 14 May 2013 19:49:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 To the New York Islands http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2009/01/to-the-new-york-islands/ http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2009/01/to-the-new-york-islands/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:04:31 +0000 Bryan http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/wp/?p=204

Okay, Pete Seeger may just be cooler than Obama. Maybe cooler than Dylan.

My favorite verse, which I don’t think I’ve ever heard before, begins “In the squares of the city,” a little over two minutes in. The dig at private property that follows ain’t bad either.

(via EOTAW, via Unfogged.)


UPDATE: I’m leaving the first video link to memorialize the irony TMK pointed out in comments — that HBO was lame enough to force YouTube to take down a song decrying private property in the name of a better America. Zoiks.

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