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Tom Mooney Is Free

Woody Guthrie
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Thomas Joseph "Tom" Mooney (December 8, 1882 – March 6, 1942) was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. Believed by many to have been wrongly convicted of a crime he did not commit, Mooney served 22 years in prison before finally being pardoned in 1939.

Mister Tom Mooney is free!
Mister Tom Mooney is free!
Done got a pardon from that old jailhouse,
Mister Culbert L. Olsen's decree.

How does it feel to be free?
How does it feel to be free?
How does it feel just to be out of jail,
Since the gov'ner has got your liberty?

It was way up in old Frisco town,
It was way up in old Frisco town,
Mr. Mooney and Billings was accused of a killing
And railroaded jail house bound.

Twenty two years have gone by,
Twenty two years have gone by,
And he spent the twenty two for a crime he didn't do,
My! My! My! My!

Well the Truth caint be tied with a chain.
Well the Truth caint be tied with a chain.
From the cold clammy halls of the San Quentin walls,
Mister Tom Mooney is Free.

It was Culbert L. Olsen's decree!
It was Culbert L. Olsen's decree!
When he took that gov'nors chair, he said, I declare,
I got to set this state of California free.

envoyé par dq82 - 10/4/2017 - 15:37


L'attentato dinamitardo alla Preparedness Parade - la parata dei sostenitori dell'ingresso degli USA nella guerra in Europa - avvenuto il 22 luglio 1916 a San Francisco causò 10 morti e parecchi feriti.



Tom Mooney e Warren Billings, militanti socialisti, furono i capri espiatori. I veri esecutori non furono mai individuati, ma inchieste successive suggerirono il coinvolgimento di anarchici come l'italiano Mario Buda (che poi fu sospettato dell'attentato a Wall Street nel 1920, ma non venne mai arrestato e morì nella natale Savignano nel 1963), lo svedese Celsten Eklund ed un altro italiano noto solo come Ricca, uccisi in uno scontro a fuoco con la polizia nel 1927.

E' evidente che la canzone non può essere datata al 1967, anno della morte di Guthrie, ma fu scritta nel 1939 o nel 1940, per salutare la liberazione di Tom Mooney dopo oltre 20 anni di ingiusta detenzione.

Il 1967 è la data della prima pubblicazione del libro su Woody Guthrie intitolato "Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People", realizzato da Alan Lomax e Pete Seeger

Per quel che so, "Tom Mooney Is Free" non è mai stata incisa da Guthrie, e forse da nessun altro.

Bernart Bartleby - 18/11/2017 - 21:18


B.B. - 18/11/2017 - 22:31




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