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Thread #37506   Message #522829
Posted By: John MacKenzie
07-Aug-01 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: Origins: This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: This land is your land
Yesterday on Radio Scotland there was a programme about Woody's "This Land is your Land". All the good stuff, the history the 2 verses that nobody used to sing, interviews with Pete Seeger etc., all sterling stuff. Then they had Peggy Seeger on, who ran the song and it's sentiments down, and declared that it didn't chime with the times. MY GOD!!! that woman is a professional wet blanket, sometimes I feel that she thinks that if she doesn't approve of anything, then nobody else should. Some of the things she said would have been valid if the song had been written yesterday, but like so many people of the bleeding heart persuasion she was using today's standards to judge yesterdays events.

Jock