890. Dirty Overalls (Woody Guthrie)

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Most of the following information is from "The Songs That Fought the War" by John Bush Jones. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard proposed the idea of "Victory Gardens" with suburban gardeners being asked to stop growing flowers and instead grow vegetables for the war effort. Over twenty million Victory Gardens were planted, producing over a million tons of vegetables valed at $85 million. As well as providing food for the troops, the high yield ...