You Can Hear My Whistle Blow

10. You Can Hear My Whistle Blow (previously unreleased)
(Woody Guthrie/Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc., BMI)

Track 10 – You Can Hear My Whistle Blow (MASTER MA 35)
This is so short as to be almost a ditty, but the sentiment resonates for all of that. Seemingly Guthrie wrote this while in the merchant marine – “the ship I ride on” which is “heading over this ocean to a better world to come.” Little wonder then that Tom Brokaw dubbed this “the greatest generation.”