Appleseeds: since 1954 Pete Seeger has used this column to spread ideas so that some of them con grow. From: Sing Out! | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Seeger, Pete | COPYRIGHT 2006 Sing Out Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Pete Seeger sent us these thoughts from his old friend, Lee Hays. We're happy to share them with you and hope you'll pass them along.

Lee Hays wrote the words of "If I Had a Hammer" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." I think him some kind of a genius. Here is what he wrote at age 25 in New York City, where I met him in December 1940:

       I believe in humility as the  ultimate destination of mankind.  
  
   You take a man, maybe he's a sharecropper ... no m...

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