In 1996 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released That’s Why We’re Marching, a collection, mostly, of folk songs dating from the first half of the 1940’s.
Among the album’s trove of rare and seldom heard songs of both pro- and anti-war sentiment is one memorable spoken-word track: a story by Vincent “Jimmy” Longhi about his friend, a folk singer by the name of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie–better known to the world as Woody.
Attorney, playwright and author Longhi’s story is also recounted in his book Woody, Cisco, and Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine, which chronicles his time traveling with convoys of troops during the Battle of the Atlantic with Guthrie and folk singer Cisco Houston.
The Guthrie song referenced in the story in its entirety:
…and another reminiscence from Longhi about the time their ship struck a mine in the Mediterranean, killing one person aboard:
Every Moment Has A Song 