Woody Guthrie typed signed manuscript for his unpublished song "Bugeye Jim." ...

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Woody Guthrie typed signed manuscript for his unpublished song "Bugeye Jim." Woody Guthrie typed signed manuscript for his unpublished song "Bugeye Jim." Typed manuscript signed "Woody Guthrie", 1-page, 8.5 x 14 in., dated April 30, 1946, Coney Island, New York. Includes the note "not move" in his hand, in ink, and overwritten on type. Exhibits handling with minor chips on edges, with horizontal fold and creasing on corners. "Bugeye Jim" was recorded by Woody for his publisher using a portable reel-to-reel recorder. It was never published commercially. Billy Bragg & Wilco recorded it for a cover album. After the lyrics, Woody writes in part: "I told Marjorie this night that the reason why I wrote this old song up with these new words was to show a kind of change that these old songs are always going through . . . New models of old clothes and cars come out every little while. Make it this way when you sing your songs. Make them up and shake them up. And don't ever pass up a chance to snap at a biscuit."

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