5.5.81 Drammen, Norway, intro to ‘Independence Day’
‘‘I grew up....in this, in this little town.....and was only about
10,000 people....and I had a bedroom that was out....over the backyard.....and
in the morning around six a.m, I always remember my old man getting up....and
going out back, trying to....start one of the 200-dollar cars he bought, trying
to get it started, laying on the cold ground, trying to get to work.....and
....as I got older, I looked around and I seen that there was nothing that was
gonna, that was gonna keep....keep me from ending up the same way, working out
my life in....in either the rugmill or the coffee factory....and I started to
look around and wonder why, why was it that my father worked in a factory....and
why his father before him worked in a factory....and how it seemed like there
was never....there was never an end....and when I looked at us, I realised that
the one thing that we had in common was that we didn’t know enough about
ourselves....and in school, we weren´t taught the things that we needed
to be able to rise above the situation we were living in.....and I was lucky
because....(?)....I was lucky because I had....on the radio when I started listening,
when I was 15 or 16 years old...I heard something....something in those songs
that my old man, during his whole life, he never heard anyplace....and in all
that early rock and roll music, there was like, there was a promise....and it
was a promise....it was just a promise of a right to a life....and I used to
wish that I could’ve.....went downstairs at night when my old man was
sitting in the kitchen and (?) and said like ‘Listen to this....because
it’ll fill you up inside....and it’ll make you feel....make you
feel human again’....but....but by that time it was too....it was like
it was too late for him, he’d been disappointed too much and kicked down
too much....but it ain’t too late....it wasn´t too late for me and
it’s not too late....too late for you....but you gotta listen and you
gotta fight....inside....”
5.5.81 Drammen, Norway, intro to ‘This land is Your Land’
‘‘This is a song...this is a song, was written by...by Woody Guthrie,
it’s....in the States when times, times get hard and there’s a lot
of, lot of unemployment.....there´s always a resurgence of....of groups
like, uh.....Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialists....and this is a song
that was written....was written as an answer, an angry answer to....this song
called ‘God Bless America’ and....it wasn’t, it wasn’t
about, about flag-waving or....or phony kind of patriotism that, that a lot
of these groups hide behind their phony nationalism....it was about just the
right of, of every man to live free....and....it’s a dream.....but I think
it’s a dream that’s in the hearts of people, people all over the
world so it’s not a song just....(?)....”
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Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi