Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

About The Songwriters Guild of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lEA9FQ9BU0

The video provides a brief explanation by members of the Guild about their mission to create a standardized contract between writers and publishers and to lobby for copyright protection.

See David Allan Coe perform it in 1975:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQw3NUkHK_c