Looking at the words, leaving the chorus out out of it, I can't see anything particularly United Statesish about the song.

It's isn't really specially about the United States. It's about how the rich and the powerful have tried to steal the country he's singing about from the poor and the weak - but it still belongs to all of us, whatever the title deeds and the law says.

Which means he could have been singing about pretty well any country in the world. And any time I've sung it, that's what I've been singing about, even though I might sing it with American places in the chorus. (That's partly because you'd have to rewrite it a lot for where I live. You couldn't get away with just a changed chorus. We don't have "diamond deserts" for a start - but of course the Canadians do, snowfields. Though I've never heard the Canada version.)

I tend to think Woody Guthrie would have been only too happy to have versions of the song for all kinds of countries. But I see using American place names in this song as an act of solidarity with those Americans that stands up against those things that might make me think I was feeling anti-American. Except it's not being anti American at all, unless Woody Guthrie was anti-American. (And of course there were plenty said he was.)

Here's a chorus anyway for an English version if we needed one:

This land is your land, this land is my land
from the Mersey Ferry and the boat from Ireland
to the Streets of London or the Scottish border,
This land was made for you and me.