In 1940, Alfred Stern joined The Almanac Singers after Lee Hays was dropped for his heavy drinking. He clashed with and was intimidated by Woody and "he refused to indulge in the rural proletarian façade".
He wrote a parody that made me laugh:
My name is Woody Guthrie, the great hysterical bum,
Highly saturated in Whiskey,rye and rum.
I wrote a million pages, but never read a one
And that's about the greatest thing that Guthrie's ever done.
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