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His wife Toshi died last year, just shy of their 70th anniversary.
What a life.
Thank you for your music.</p>
<p>My dad was a fan so we heard his music all the time when we were growing up. We wore out his Carnegie Hall concert album. Thankful that he lived a full 94 years.</p>
<p>Turn, turn, turn.</p>
<p>One of the giants of the giants.</p>
<p>We shall overcome & if I had a hammer.
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<p>…and a Harvard man.</p>
<p>Played his music a lot for my boys when they were young. What a great musician and man.</p>
<p>Yes, he had quite a life. I have a live Pete and Arlo album I’m listening to now! Particularly fond of How Can I Keep from Singing</p>
<p>Saw him in concert at my college way back when, and many nights I rocked my babies while singing “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”–not because I was trying to send an anti-war message to an infant, but because it was one of the few songs I knew all the words to. D just told me she doesn’t know the song at all, but I’m convinced it’s lodged in her gray matter somewhere.</p>
<p>The song I first remember hearing him sing is “Little Boxes” - maybe that’s why I became an architect. 
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<p>My parents used to play his albums, though they were as far from activist as one could get. I too saw him while in college, the folks came down to join me. I used to play (badly) folk guitar and played many of his songs as they were so clear and easy. I sang several of his to all of my kids when they were babies. “Little Boxes” is more relevant today than it ever was.</p>
<p>I remember that song on a childrens record by Malvina Reynolds.</p>
<p>Malvina Reynolds wrote that song.</p>
<p>My parents took me to hear him in 1961 with the unknown warmup act (Joan Baez, age 19). I taught myself guitar from the Weavers albums. I was moved today to read the telegram sent by MLK to him, asking for his participation in Selma, Alabama. He endured career-trashing by HUAC under Senator Joseph McCarthy. His environmental efforts with the Clearwater ship were based around hands-on education wherever they docked. He gives us so much to think about today.</p>
<p>He was my college graduation speaker at Oberlin College, 1972. He gave a lecture/concert with his banjo eviscerating the War in Vietnam. Afterwards, my family and I found him sitting and musing alone under a tree in Tappan Square, saying he preferred their outdoor bag lunch in May over the indoor headtable spot. We joined him, had a lovely talk and were soon joined by another 12 people like birds under a tree. </p>
<p>THen, like many reading here, I raised my own kids on his remarkable music and others whom he inspired.</p>
<p>The way he collected, wrote and shared songs was a great blend of academic musicology (learned from his professorial family), a brilliant ear for music and foreign languages, and a generous heart. Among the many songs he wanted to share with the world, the lyric from “Guantanemero” applies to this man, though he’d never say it of himself: “Yo soy un hombre sincero…”</p>
<p>Showing my age here - does anyone else remember him singing “Big Muddy” on the Smothers Brothers show in the late 60s? I was 13 years old and amazed that a singer could actually say “the big fool said to push on” about the President on television. I envisioned him being arrested after the show. Apparently his first attempt to sing the song had been censored by the network but he made a return appearance. Fascinating to remember those times.</p>
<p>The lyrics to Guatanamera are from a famous poem from Versos Sencillos by the Cuban poet and revolutionary Jose Marti. They were set to a common folk song about a Guantanamera, a girl from Guantanamo, before Guantanamo became known for other reasons. </p>
<p>Saw him sing at a memorial celebration in New York for Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner 20 years ago. He was introduced by the indomitable Aaron Henry, who began his introduction with “Pete Seeger couldn’t sing when he first came to Mississippi 25 years ago, and he still can’t sing today!” Seeger laughed and gave us an evocative and wonderful show, full of feeling and reverence for those times.</p>
<p>I saw him at Georgetown in Nov. 1970. I had 2 weeks of Navy training in Philly and took the train to DC on the weekend in between to visit my Dad. Found out they had tickets to see him. Back then you had to wear the uniform leaving the ship and I didn’t have any civvies with me. I felt uncomfortable going in uniform but there weren’t any issues. Can’t remember the specifics of the performance but I recall walking out thinking it was great.</p>