Woody Guthrie | photo of the day ‘My Name is New York'

Photo: Eric Schaal via the NY Times

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A photo from “My Name Is New York,” showing Woody Guthrie playing while he gets his shoes shined.

My name is New York, I’m a brick on a brick

I’m a hundred folks running, and ten dying sick

I’m a saint, I’m a sinner, a whore and her pimp

Your ocean’s the mirror I look in to primp.

—“My Name Is New York,” Woody Guthrie

"This Land Is Your Land" was written at a small rooming house on 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue on February 23, 1940, within a few days of his arrival.