Congratulations to Pete Seeger, folksinger, activist, and American patriot, who is 92 years old today!
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ElaineGross said
Thank you for your continued example of “living the change that we desire”. Your life have shown us that you can make a positive difference through active proof of your beliefs.
momgag said
Happy Birthday, Pete! Thanks for all the music and for speaking truth all these years.
Volquardt Kempa said
Happy birthday!!! I sing your songs since 1968. Thank you.
Rosaleen Dickson said
Happy birthday Pete, from Rosaleen Leslie -( now Dickson,)
now in Ottawa, Canada. Wish you were here.
Keep on singin’ babe.
Love,
Rosie – (a red head pal, with Jack Langstaff, – in the 30s))
Margaret Kunstler said
Happy Birthday, Pete. From the Kunstler clan.
Rob Zucker said
Love you, Pete!
Looking forward to seeing you at the Sloop this summer.
Happy Birthday!
Rob Zucker (one of your millions of fans)
Kalman Toth said
Dear Pete, happy birthday from Kalman and from Hungarian friends. Thans from east Berlin in 1986. Thak you from banjo lessen, songs and words.
Kálmán Tóth Budapest,Hungary
Karen Ingeman said
I love Pete Seeger. I am a music teacher and political activist so you, Pete are my inspiration. I believe in the power of one and you are a living example of that.
Thank you, Pete Seeger!
Paul Auger said
Happy birthday Mr. Seeger
I want to thank you for all you have done and are still doing to make the world a better place to live. I grew up on Rainbow Quest and Mr. Rogers. I now teach computer to Sp Ed Children. I let them know that they can use tech to work for justice, peace, and to make thier voice heard. I tell people all the time that Pete Seeger and Fred Rogers have played a major role in who I am as a person ans as a professional. I only hope I do your name justice and in a small way live up to the standard you have set
One of my life goal is to meet you one day I am goin to try yo make it to the festival this year. Wo knows I just might do that
Peace
Paul Auger
Letty said
Right on. Pete Seeger and Mr. Rogers! Thank you, Paul.
Bill Selers said
Pete,
You may remember me. I sailed the Woody with you and other skippers around 1980-85. Made metal fittings for the Sojourner Truth and repairs for the Woody, was involved with the Beacon Sloop Club sailng workshops, etc. I was on the epic journey to Perth Amboy, NJ, Hurricane David and its aftermath. Those were inspiring and exciting times. Seems like yesterday.
I’m heading for my 82nd, June first, still 10 years behind you.
My best to you and Toshi, and, of course, Congratulations and best wishes for this, your 92nd year!
Bill Sellers
Carlos Mesquita said
Happy birthday, comrade.
I I was at your concert in Lisbon, Portugal, December 2th 1983, and cherish the LP of that concert and ticket of that memorable day.
Many happy returns.
Carlos
ellen liman said
dear pete. i’m writing you in remembrance of your friend einer nordstrom, in thunder bay ontario., who passed away many years ago, but is still a strong part of my past, and i know was a friend of yours.
i know i don’t have to remind you who he was. Einer was a strong union man, & a friend to young musicians.
many in thunder bay probably saw him as just “the milk man”. you and i know he was so much more…., although, as a union man, he’s probably laughing at us somewhere now saying “well, what’s wrong with being a milk man!”)
einer was someone i very much looked up to, and have called him a friend of mine. my own dad just turned 92 on may 8, and he was and is a strong union man too. einer (sp is not my strength!) was someone i admired, respected, and who taught me that daily living a life was our job. he was a very kind man, my friend, and yours…….so today i would like to honor you, and einer, and my dad, all strong union men…..
thought to write after looking though an old copy of “the bells of rhymney”, 1964, that i bought from einer….great songs never die!
with love and friendship and soladarity…..ellen
John Hanson said
I hadn’t been born when you started fighting
I was a child and you were fighting
I saw you help bring us together; all welcome!
I heard you sail and sing
You helped me learn to sing and write
Mrs Grover helped me read music
You’re 40 years my senior, Pete,
How did you keep your energy?
Clean Living No Doubt!!
Thanks, Bud
Joan Zatorski Puca said
October 31, 2011
Dear Mr. Seeger, How I wish you were able to see firsthand the citizens in Tucson, Arizona, occupying Armory Park in non-violent civil disobedience as they attempt to raise the conscience of their fellow citizens! I am certain you would feel the same sense of pride and jubilation my husband and I are experiencing now as we camp out, listen, speak, feed, tend to illnesses, and SING! with them!
When the OCCUPY movement suffered the serious injury of its first “fallen soldier”, young Veterans-for-Peace member, Scott Olsen, resulting from the assault by the police force in Oakland, California several days ago, I remembered wisdom you shared so many years ago: that folk songs are ever evolving, changed by the very folk who love them and sing them. Buoyed by your insights, I wrote some lyrics to the beautiful “Joe Hill” as my way to pay homage to Scott Olsen. I share these meager verses with you now, hoping they might offer affirmation that the battle for justice is ever alive through the actions of these most exquisite souls participating in the OCCUPY movement worldwide.
Not knowing any other way than the internet to communicate directly with you, I hope some fellow lover of the Hudson River and voices raised in song, living in Beacon New York, might catch sight of my letter here and somehow get it to you. I offer it to you in gratitude for your lessons through the years, which my beloved and I have passed on to our four sons and now, to our most precious granddaughter and the wee sibling she will be greeting sometime in May, 2012. The cause for justice and freedom is alive and well and living in Tucson, Arizona, my dear, dear Sir!! In solidarity and affection from Joan Zatorski Puca
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Joe Hill/Scott Olsen
Joe Hill/Scott Olsen
Original lyrics by Heyes/Robinson
New Lyrics by Joan Zatorski of Occupy Tucson
I saw Scott Olsen here last night, as healed as he could be.
Said I, “But Scott, they shot your head”,
“I walk in peace”, said he. “I walk in peace”, said he.
“In Oakland, Scott”, I said to him, “Bergstresser aimed at you”
“While you protected folks behind”
Scott said, “They gassed us, too” (2X)
Says I, “They threw a flash grenade, as you lay on the ground”
“Takes more than that to kill my dream”,
Says Scott “We’ll carry on”(2X)
Standing there as big as life and smiling with his eyes,
Scott says: “What they can never kill,
Goes on to OCCUPY” (2X)
“Dreams of justice”, Scott then said “will never, ever die!
When folks join hands and OCCUPY
Scott Olsen’s by their side” (2X)
From Oakland all the way to Maine, on every plain and hill,
Where people join to OCCUPY
You’ll Find Scott Olsen still.(2X)
I saw Scott Olsen here last night, as healed as he could be.
Said I, “But Scott, they shot your head”,
“I walk in peace”, said he. “I walk in peace”, said he.
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