YMMV / Woody Guthrie

• Covered Up: "All You Fascists Bound To Lose" has been given new life several times, notably as a hopeful prayer by Rhiannon Giddens, and by Billy Bragg as a defiant call to arms.
• Magnificent Bastard: From Dust Bowl Ballads: The title character of "Pretty Boy Floyd" is out with his girlfriend when he gets in a fight with a policeman. After killing the cop, he flees into the countryside and takes up bank robbery. Travelling across the Midwest, Floyd uses his ill-gotten gains to pay people's mortgages and leave thousand-dollar tips. Around Christmastime, Floyd leaves a giant load of food at a shelter for families affected by the Dust Bowl, along with a note chastising the bankers he robs for taking their homes away.
• Memetic Mutation: THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS^Explanation A slogan that Guthrie plastered on his guitar as an expression of his left-wing politics and his use of music as a tool for political advocacy. The phrase became a popular subject for parodies and homages over the decades, to the point where many are unaware that it came from Guthrie.

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