This amazing -- and for folkies, priceless -- find, unearths the heart and soul of the man who gave the American folk song its teeth, its bite and its social conscience and influenced folk singers from the Weavers to Bob Dylan to Phil Ochs. It's a sheet with the original lyrics of Guthrie's song "Blowing Down This Road" neatly typed in 1939 by Guthrie along with a monograph explaining how the song came about, and signed by the "dust bowl troubadour" himself, about a year before composing "This Land is Your Land." The addendum is a totally original, never-seen-elsewhere piece of writing by Guthrie teeming with the commitment and outrage that stoked him to flee his native Oklahoma and trek across the Depression-ravaged "Dust Bowl" to California with moneyless, hungry "Grapes of Wrath" migrant workers. Along the way he hitched, rode freight cars, and even walked, all the while writing songs that expressed solidarity with the downtrodden. Of "Blowing Down This Road", he wrote on the lyric sheet, "I made this up heading from joint to joint from the Texas panhandle to...Los Angeles, in [1939]. I sung this one nine blue jillion times...to warm the stewpot and to heat the kettle...I met up with a blue trillible of good folks that just ain't gonna be treated the ways you're treating them by wrecking their trade unions as fast with your high prices as they can fight a death battle to win a little pinch of higher wages." Under the block of text is Guthrie's strong and clear NRMT signature in blue ink. Guthrie purists will be fascinated with the original lyrics of the song, the nine verses of which are somewhat different than the final version he recorded in 1940 and released on the album "Dust Bowl Ballads", though the hook line "I ain't gonna be treated this a way" remained inviolate. Clearly, it was a work-in-progress at the time, based on the traditional folk tune "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad", which the migrants often sung. The 7 .5 x 14" sheet is EX with 3 light fold marks. Though there are numerous traces of blob marks arrayed around the borders apparently from being glued to a wall or other display, these seem almost artistic in nature. There is also the name "Henry" written in pencil at the top, seemingly in a child's hand, which matches the writing on an envelope the sheet was mailed in, sent to a "Henry Sloane" in Berkly [sic] California and postmarked October 13, 1953. It's possible a child may have been enamored with the song and sent it to a relative. If so, that would have given Woody great pleasure, as he considered his works "peoples songs." For all of the people who revere Woody Guthrie's memory, this piece is a stunning keepsake.