Woody Guthrie - So Long, It's Been Good to Know You Lyrics

Lyrics So Long, It's Been Good to Know You - 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

Singing:

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,

Singing:

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,

Singing:

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

Singing:

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 Library of Congress Recordings

date of release

01-01-1988

1 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
2 Do Re Mi
3 Dust Pneumonia Blues
4 Talking Dust Bowl Blues
5 Pretty Boy Floyd
6 Lost Train Blues
7 Railroad Blues
8 Rye Whiskey
9 Old Joe Clark
10 Beaumont Rag
11 Texas Oil Field
12 Greenback Dollar
13 Boll Weevil Song
14 Hard Times
15 They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave
16 Jolly Banker
17 I Ain't Got No Home
18 Dirty Overalls
19 Chain Around My Leg
20 Worried Man Blues
21 Lonesome Valley
22 Walking Down That Railroad Line
23 Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
24 Dust Storm Disaster
25 Foggy Mountain Top
26 California Blues
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