At 94, it’s hard to say he went too soon, but the world will surely miss him. Labor rights champion, civil rights proselytizer, environmentalist, and always, always antiwar activist.

Here’s one of his greatest compositions.

Here he was at President Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 with grandson Tao Rodriguez and Bruce Springsteen singing Woody Guthrie’s greatest song, what Springsteen called “perhaps the greatest song ever written about America,” “This Land is Your Land.”

Goodbye, Pete.