Bobby Bare - Woody lyrics

Now the first time I saw Woody he was standing in our yard In the spring time 1935, was pouring down real hard He said I'll pay for room and board, maybe a month or two My name's Widrow Guthrie and I'm just rambling through But call me Woody, my friends all do If you call me Woody I might sing a little song for you Now it was just my mom and me, a big house all alone My daddy had gone to fight a war just never made it home But each night ole Woody played his guitar, make up songs to sing And would sing that midnight special, we would make them rafters ling And we'd get happy, but we understood That times were hard but for a while life was good Now mama, she took the Woody, said she like to sing in style God, she looks so pretty And Woody made her smile Taught me how to cut some smoke and sing and play guitar How to say a prayer to heaven and wish upon a star Yea, I know Woody, mama have been rambling in the night I was only 12 years old, I could see it in their eyes Mama came to me one hot July day Said our Woody's leaving son and she wiped the tear away And Woody said these rambling thievers are mighty heavy load Then he picked up his guitar and his sack and rolled on down the road Goodbye Woody, we know you feeling bad Goodbye Woody, what a time we've had Now many years come and gone and I'm old but still alive My old mind is wondering back to the summer of ‘35 Time had taken everything but one thing I still own I can still pick up my guitar and sing a Woody Guthrie song This land is your land with do re mi Let the midnight special shine his ever loving light on me Hold on, it's been good to know you Cause I'm going down the road feeling bad with it