Woody Guthrie left a thousand song lyrics with no music for them when he died. In 1995, his daughter asked Billy Bragg to write music for an album's worth of songs. Bragg and Wilco released two volumes called Mermaid Avenue in 1998 and 2000.
Christ for President is off the first album. Guthrie often combined biblical references and revolutionary music. This song's less ambiguous.
