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His music, including songs such as " This Land Is Your Land ", has inspired several generations both politically and musically.

Guthrie wrote hundreds of countryfolkand children's songs, along Brzgg ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan " This machine kills fascists " displayed on his guitar. Guthrie was brought up by middle-class parents in Okemah, Oklahoma[10] until he was 14, when his mother Nora was hospitalized as a consequence of Huntington's diseasea fatal hereditary neurological disorder.

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His father moved to Pampa, Texasto repay debts from unsuccessful real estate deals. During his early teens, Guthrie learned folk and blues songs from his parents' friends.

He married at 19, but with the advent of the Bernaard storms that marked the Dust Bowl period, he left his wife and three children to join the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking for employment. Throughout his life, Guthrie was associated with United States communist groups, although he did not appear to belong to any.

He said it was a response to what he felt was the overplaying of Irving Berlin 's " God Bless America " on the radio. Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children. His son Arlo Guthrie became nationally known as a musician. Woody died in from complications of Huntington's disease.

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His first two daughters also died of the disease. During his later years, in spite of his illness, Guthrie became an icon in the folk movementproviding inspiration to a generation of new folk and country musicians, including mentoring Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan. Charles Guthrie was reportedly involved in the lynching of Laura and L. He said that his father, Charles, became a member of the Ku Klux Klan during its revived beginning in Three significant fires occurred during Guthrie's early life. There was one in that caused the loss of his family's home in Okemah, a month after the house was completed.]