This Negro lady had a right new baby, and a son that was doomed to hang by her dead body with the rise of the morning wind, and my dad told me the whole story.” - handwritten introduction to the song “Don’t Kill My Baby and My Son” by Woody Guthrie - “You can stretch my neck on that old river bridge/But don’t kill my baby and my son…”; Charlie Guthrie was never “undersheriff”; he was instead likely a prominent member of the lynch mob; the Okemah jail was not an “old black jailhouse”; the Nelsons were removed from cells at the Okemah County Courthouse, Woody’s father’s workplace; the Nelsons were taken six miles away to a bridge pointedly near a Negro settlement; the mob had arrived around midnight and the hanging had taken place long before “the rise of the morning wind.” Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain, is home-field for the tall tale of Woody Guthrie, but his official story never amounts to much more than a Rodgers & Hammerstein roadshow version done-up for a one-man band.