In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’…

- Tom Paxton

A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.

- Tom Paxton

Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have somet…

- Tom Paxton

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

- Tom Paxton

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

- Tom Paxton

Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.

- Tom Paxton

In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man s…

- Tom Paxton

Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when - listen to him Now!

- Tom Paxton

As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew …

- Tom Paxton