and it was irving berlin's "god bless america." and he hated it. it was like, how can you say that aboutyou know, it was still the depression. in the 1940s, the depression hadn't ended in the united states of america. it was only the second world war that we ended the depression. and he sat down, and he wrote this song called "god blessed america for you and me," and which later became "this land was made for you and me." so, woody was thehe was the first punk rocker, and the last elizabethan balladeer. he was many, many things, woody. amy goodman: so talk about some of the lyrics that you found. billy bragg: wethe album that we made, mermaid avenue, myself and wilco in the late '90s, we actually recorded a lot more material that has never been released. and next year, we're hoping to release that whole full thirda whole third album, another 16-, 17-track stuff. but woody's original songs, the songs that he wrote back in the 1930syou know, i mean, the one that i'm going to play for you now, which is one of his classic songs, with these images of pe