Folk Music's Best Hair

Today at lunch time, I'll proudly be joining a group of fellow authors on the steps of the San Francisco Public Library, to participate in Ban(ne)d Books Day. The idea is to read or sing work that has been censored, thereby raising awareness about the importance of the First Amendment, and (while we're at it) libraries in general.

Sam and I were trying to figure out a cool and original way to participate, then found ourselves going back to basics. I don't know what everyone else plans to do, but we decided to honor all of the following today:

Woody Guthrie (under constant assault by censors, even after his death, causing a ruckus over a library in his Oklahoma home town)...

Pete Seeger (who just turned 90, and spent many years on the HUAC blacklist), and...

Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul, and Mary, whose hair I always wanted, and who just died).

We'll be singing "This Land is Your Land" with a new, original verse that goes something like this:

The First Amendment is a good amendment

From the censors we must defend it

If we don’t mend it they will suspend it

This land was made for you and me

 So come on down, and join in.  100 Larkin Street, San Francisco! Key of "G".