(should be posted in "Writing", but nobody actually READS those posts!).

Backstory: My song "Easy Annie" opened up the floodgates. I put together three songs in the last 24 hours. These are still "baby songs"; they ain't learned to walk yet, but I'm proud of them. This is the third of that series (I'll post the second if this actually gets read). For those who don't know, Okemah, Oklahoma was Woody Guthrie's birthplace:

I was just 18 years old
On a hot and dry Kansas road
Carrying a heavy load
As I headed to the Sea
I went to the state of Washington
I saw the workers in the hot summer sun
I saw in the faces of each one
A longing to be free

(CH):

I walked 37 years to find my voice
37 years to make that choice
37 years to sing the songs
Brimming in my soul
37 years, a long long time
37 years, I walked that line
37 years to find what's mine
Before I could feel whole

I worked in the factories and in the mines
I worked in the assembly lines
And in each stranger's face I'd find
A hunger to be free
I told them that there was a plan
Soneone will write their tale if they can
It took awhile for me to understand
Perhaps that someone was me

(CH)

So much of my time's been spent
Walking the steps where Woody went
Travelling in the trail of the innocent
In the footsteps of Tom Joad
I don't know which way the road will go
Or which way the wind will blow
All I know is that I found my soul
On that Okemah road.