Going Down The Road

02. Going Down the Road (I Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This Way)
(Woody Guthrie-Lee Hays/TRO-Hollis Music, Inc., BMI)

Track 2 – Going Down the Road (I Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This Way) (MASTER MA 711)
Guthrie learned this from his uncle Jeff Guthrie, a fiddle- and guitar-player, a sometime Pampa, Texas, policeman and piano tuner, who, in turn, had picked it up around 1910 in Olive, Oklahoma.When his nephew suggested the song as one every migrant would know for use in the film The Grapes of Wrath,Woody was upset because director John Ford “slowed it down and made it too doleful.”

Guthrie here plays mandolin, Houston guitar, and Terry harmonica.