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RELEASE: August 26, 2008
RECORD LABEL: Bad Dog Records
TRACK 8:
My Battle JONATHA'S NOTE:I found this lyric and my heart just leapt. You can see in the liner notes how labored the handwriting was. I think Woody was already in the hospital when he wrote it. But there was something so elemental, and at the same time universal, that I had to go deeper. Then in the archives one day, I was paging through one of his notebooks from years earlier, and there it was: "I never dread the day I will die, "cause my sunset is somebody's morning sky." Nora told me Woody would have loved it that someone was digging and merging and making new songs from his different writings. I was just thrilled that the jigsaw puzzle fell into place and this beautiful spiritual song really came to life.
LYRICS:
Show me how, how to fight my battle in life
Teach me how, how to fight my hard times in life
And I will never dread the day I will die
Show me how, how to face my troublesome fights
Teach me how, how to win my union in life
And I will never dread the day I will die
Show me how, how to win for all of my people
Teach me how, how to love this battle of life
How to fight, how to win, how to love |
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