Here’s an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html
Relevant paragraph:
Woody Guthrie’s guitar didn’t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.
So we’ll wait til it comes around on the guitar here, and sing it when it does. Here it comes.
I miss my friends on the group W bench
So good. The blind justice punch line always got me
Same as the “I wanna keeel!”
It has so many great gags and one liners, this song never fails to cheer me up just a bit any time I hear it.