DUSTY OLD DUST
The best known song on the Woody Guthrie album Dust Bowl Ballads is “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh” (called “Dusty Old Dust” on the album). The Weavers had a hit with “So Long (It’s Been Good to Know Yuh)” in 1951, taking it to #4 on the pop music charts and becoming one of their “staple” songs. From Wikipedia: “The repetitive chorus has been described as ‘a witty, black retort, utterly negative and apocalyptic’”.
(March 2015)
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