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Jacob B Lyr Req: This Land is Your Land (parody) (24) RE: This Land is your land (parody) 08 Feb 05


Martin Mull used to perform a song based on This Land is Your Land. He couldn't record it because of objections from the Guthrie estate. The verses were spoken, and the chorus sung to the tune of This Land. Here's what I remember of it.

Chorus:
This land ain't your land
This land is my land
From the New York Yankees
To Lebanon Long Island
From the Gulf Stream golf course
To the U.S. Air Force
This land was made for guys like me.

Verse 1:
I'm about as groovy as a John Wayne movie
...

Verse 2:
Now the hippies they are quiet
But you know they're going to riot
Got to be subversive cause they look so strange
Walking down the street
With their hair to their feet
Hand out to greet you
"You got any spare change?"
Well, I never give them any
Not a penny
I just punch them in the mouth and I say
"If this country sucks, well, so do I
"And I'll fight to keep it that way."

Sorry that I don't remember more, but I only heard it once, thirty years ago.

Jacob




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