Greenway served in the American Army in World War II and worked for a while as a carpenter and contractor.
"[1] was later published as American Folksongs of Protest (University of Pennsylvania Press 1953), and was the standard work in the field for 40 years.
[3] Many consider his best work to be Down Among the Wild Men, an account of his studies among the Aborigines of Australia, a people he greatly admired, and indeed found to be superior to the decadent white man of the Western world.
A former left-wing protest singer who had recorded talking blues critical of the administration of Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, during this time he wrote prolifically for conservative magazine The National Review.
No, but it should have.”), he responded to a threatening letter from a Native critic in a mock-pidgin dialect, saying that the “[C]hicken tracks of red brother ... makeum paleface heart heavy.” [4] Greenway recorded his first album, American Industrial Folksongs, in 1955.