Lyrics So Long Its Been Good To Know Yuh - Woody Guthrie

(World War II Version)

I got the news that the war had begun

It was straight for the Army Hall that I run

And all of the people in my home town

Was a running up and a running down

So long, it's been good to know you

There's a mighty big war that's got to be won

And we'll get back together again.

The crowd was packed by the railroad track

People was yelling and patting my back

And while the engineer rung his bell

I hugged all the mothers and kissed all the gals,

So long, it's been good to know you

There's a mighty big war that's got to be won

And we'll get back together again

I got to the camp and I learnt how to fight

Fascists in daytime, mosquitoes at night

I got my orders to cross o'er the sea

So I waved " goodbye" to the girls I could see,

So long, it's been good to know you

There's a mighty big war that's got to be won

And we'll get back together again

I got on a boat and I started to float

My old pack-sack and my big wool coat

With ten thousand men we rode the foam

And sung this song to the people back home:

So long, it's been good to know you

There's a mighty big war that's got to be won

And we'll get back together again

I landed somewhere on a fighting shore

With ten million soldiers and ten million more

And while we were chasing that Super Race

We sung this song in the chase.

It was:

So long, it's been good to know you

There's a mighty big war that's got to be won

And we'll get back together again

So it won't be long till the fascists are gone

And all of their likes are finished and done

We'll throw the clods of dirt in their face

And walk away from that lonesome place

So long, it's been good to know you

There's a mighty big war that's got to be won

And we'll get back together again

Writer(s): Woody Guthrie

Album This Is Your Land - Fifty Favourites

date of release

11-10-2010

1 This Is Your Land
2 House of the Rising Sun
3 Vigilante Man
4 Do Re Mi
5 John Henry
6 Talking Dust Bowl Blues
7 I Ain't Got No Home
8 The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
9 Blowin' Down This Road Feeling Bad
10 Grand Coulee Dam
11 Gypsy Davy
12 Ramblin' Round Your City
13 Pretty Boy Floyd
14 New York Town
15 Worried Man Blues
16 Dust Pneumonia Blues
17 Cumberland Gap
18 Philadelphia Lawyer
19 Tom Joad, Pt. 2
20 So Long Its Been Good To Know Yuh
21 Pastures of Plenty
22 Car Song
23 Ship in the Sky
24 Jesus Christ
25 Dust Bowl Blues
26 Baltimore to Washington
27 Oregon Trail
28 Buffalo Gals
29 Jamara Valley
30 Muleskinner Blues
31 Buffalo Skinner
32 Wreck of the Old 97
33 Dig My Life Away
34 Slip Knot Hang Knot
35 Poor Boy
36 Two Good Men
37 Better World A-Comin'
38 Mean Talking Blues
39 I Ain't Got Nobody
40 New Found Land

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