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Thread #37506   Message #646644
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
10-Feb-02 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: ADD: This Land Is Your Land (1952 Guthrie version)
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
1952: last version recorded by Guthrie

This land is your land, this land is my land
From the redwood forest to the New York island.
From the snow-capped mountains to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.

As I go walkin' my ribbon of highway
I see all around me my blue blue skyway
Everywhere around me the wind keeps a-whistlin'
This land is made for you and me.

I'm a-chasin' my shadow out across the roadmap
To my wheat fields waving, to my cornfield dancing
As I go walkin' this wind keeps talkin'
This land is made for you and me.

I can see your mailbox, I can see your doorstep
I can feel my wind rock your tip-top treetop
All around your house there my sunbeam whispers
This land is made for you and me.


Words about the sad state of America gone.