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This Land Is Your Land

Woody Guthrie
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THIS LAND IS NOT OUR LAND

As I was walking an endless breadline,
My landlord gave me a two-week deadline.
The local paper printed a better headline:
"This Land Is Not For You And Me!"

This land is their land. It is not our land.
From your plush apartment to your Cadillac car land,
From your Wall Street office to your Hollywood star land,
This land is not for you and me.

And take your slogan and kindly stow it.
If this is our land, you'd never know it.
Let's get together and overthrow it.
This land was made for you and me.
Well this land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
Well this land was made for you and me(1)

Well once I rode that ribbon highway
I saw above me an endless sky
I saw below me a golden valley
Oh this land was made for you and me(2)

I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
Through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was crying
It said this land was made for you and me
(3)

Well the sun came shining as I went strolling
Through the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
And the bells were ringing and the fog was lifting
And I seen this land was made for you and me
(4)

Now they're dying on the streets of New York and in Liberty City
Down in Harlem County and on the streets of Brixton
People watching, people worry
If this land was made for you and me
(5)

And though they may try, they'll never stop me
And though they may try, they'll never own me
'Cause I am wandering, and I know
That this land was made for you and me
(6)

One Sunday morning in the shadow of the steeple
By the Relief Office I saw the people
And they were hungry and they were wondering
If this land was made for you and me
(7)

I climbed a wall there that tried to stop me
A painted sign there said "private property"
But on the other side it didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me
(8)

Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land was made for you and me
(9)
(1) Chorus, (example taken from the live 28 Dec 1980 version)

(2) Verse 1 (example taken from the live 19 April 1981 version)

(3) Verse 2 (example taken from the live 28 April 1981 version)

(4) Verse 3 (example taken from the live 13 May 1981 version)

(5) Verse 4 (example taken from the live 26 May 1981 version)

(6) Verse 5 (example taken from the live 14 Sep 1981 version)

(7) Verse 6 (example taken from the live 04 Sep 1985 version)

(8) Verse 7 (example taken from the live 18 Jan 2009 version)

(9) Verse 8 (example taken from the live 18 Jan 2009 version)


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