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Thread #18942   Message #190577
Posted By: Clinton Hammond2
06-Mar-00 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: this land is my land? (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: Lyr Add: THIS LAND IS OUR LAND (Todd Snider)
Then there's the Todd Snyder song, "This Land Is Our Land" that is perhaps a slightly more accurate view of the topic... It's on the album "Songs For The Daily Planet"

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This Land Is Our Land
By: Todd Snider

Freeway through a reservation,
Make way for a brand new nation,
Big ideas, we got brand new plans,
Heaven knows we need this land,
We're gonna build big, high and wide
City streets through country sides,
Chemicals, and pesticides.
This land is our land.

Hey, red-man don't waste our time,
We're young and strong, we got hills to climb,
There's a lot of room but we need it all
For slave trade and shopping malls,
Gonna build big factories with paper plates and plastic trees
Styrofoam and antifreeze.
This land is our land.

Chorus:
This land is our land,
This land is our land,
This land is our land,
This land is our land.
(This is better heard than read! LOL!!)

Well we came out of a ragin' sea,
To claim someplace where we'd be free,
We got hopeful hearts, workin hands
Heaven knows we need this land
Cause the world needs land fills, diet pills and paper mills
We need country clubs and oil spills.
This land is our land.

Chorus:

Freeway through a reservation,
Make way for a brand new nation,
Big ideas, we got brand new plans,
Heaven knows we need this land for super bowls,
Subway rides, remote controls, and pesticides.
Gang related homicides.
This land is our land.

Chorus:

(spoken) As I was walking, on down the road there I saw a sign there said "NO TRESPASSING" But the other side didn't say nothing This land was made for me and you