This was originally worked out by Woody Guthrie when The Almanac Singers were together. The original title was "The Almanac Rag". Later on, Pete Seeger started calling it "Woody's Rag". This is really just pattern noodling in D, a tune that almost plays itself. Pete Seeger recorded in his Goofing-Off Suite. I heard a recording long ago of someone (maybe Woody, maybe Pete) playing this and picked it up by ear. Later I found it in Seeger's The Bells of Rhymney book (1964). Other songs by Woody Guthrie in this section are: "Do Re Mi" "Deportees" "Gypsy Davy" "Hard Travelin" "Hard, Ain't It Hard" "Pastures of Plenty" "The Philadelphia Lawyer" "The Reuben James" "Roll On Columbia" "So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You" "Talking Blues" "This Land Is Your Land" "Union Maid" This is a later development of the post-ragtime "rags" that fiddlers and mandolin players developed in the early 20th century using the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime tradition. Other rags/blues tunes in this collections are: "Cherry River Rag" "Colored Aristocracy" "Dora Dean" "L & N Rag" "Old Jackson Stomp" "Pig Ankle Rag" "Ragtime Annie" - all in the Tunes section and "East Tennessee Blues" "Eli Green's Cakewalk" "Hawkin's Rag" "Horace Hanesworth" "Sister Kate" "Stone's Rag" - in the Legacies section.