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She was completely about folk music.
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She was an excellent,
really excellent guitar player.
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When I saw her on television,
I thought, you know, like:
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"That girl looks like
she might need a singing partner. "
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I'd say she was someplace
in the back of my mind, you know.
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Let the word go forth
from this time and place...
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to friend and foe alike...
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that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Americans.
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Ask not what your country can do for you.
:32:38
Ask what you can do for your country.
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Got out of the car
on George Washington Bridge...
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took the subway down to the Village.
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Went to the Café Wha?
I looked out at the crowd.
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I most likely asked from the stage:
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"Does anybody know where
a couple of people could stay tonight?"
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It was in old Greenwich Village,
which was the '20s bohemia...
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and had a very venerable history.
:33:03
I first came down in 1948...
:33:06
with a red bandana around my neck...
:33:08
on the subway to go...
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to see if I could find poets...
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in Greenwich Village.
:33:15
But there had been poets.
:33:16
I probably came into the Village
around 1952 or '53. I was a kid.
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I was living in Queens,
not liking it very much.
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And for me, it was very sophisticated.
I liked that.
:33:28
I was into jazz at the time.
:33:29
I didn't like the folk music thing much at all,
I was very snobbish.
:33:33
Over across the street, there was Nick's.
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I actually met Tony Spargo...
:33:37
who was the drummer
on the very first jazz records...
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with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band,
in 1917.
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When I was young,
it was a very laid-back place...
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intermingled with various ethnic groups
were lots of what we called bohemians...
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doing their art, walking their dogs.