Fantastic autograph lyrics for an apparently unpublished song, titled and signed at the top, "Casing Her Joint, Talking Blues, Woody Guthrie," one page, 7.75 x 10.75, December 14, 1949. The handwritten lyrics begin: "Drinkin' inna ginny mill way cross town / Didn't have no job and my money runnin' down, / I met a perty girl said she hadda plan / to make all th' money you could carry in y'r hand, / sidled up ta me, asked me ta buy 'er a shot. / I motioned to the barman ta bringa little juice / the girl oozed me over in a darklit booth / she drunk a few drinks and got to the point / says, 'I needa good man to case a few joints'… / 'There's not nothin' to it,' she says ta me, / 'ya just walk around a block as easy as you please / an' if ya see any prowler cars or dicks / walk back ta my room and tell me the fix.'" The song's narrator goes on to tell the story of 'casing joints,' culminating in incarceration, and concludes: "This makes me just about the champeen joint caser going! / That's why they built alla these iron bars alla 'round me, here! Here's my moral an' my point: If ya cetch a perty gal don't case her joint! It's against the law." In fine condition, with a small crease to the upper left corner. A marvelous example of Guthrie's folk-story songwriting, replete with his humor and home-spun vernacular.
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