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This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie for Arlo Guthrie

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This Land is Your Land is a landmark song that I love to sing. Everyone knows it and sings along. It's emotional and has a terrific message. Sing along.

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  • For the original words see Woody's handwriten notes on page 472 of "Woody Guthrie: A Life" by Joe Klein. I'm way too young for Mitch Miller.

  • video’s got sass :)

  • @inkthinkink Thank you. This is my favorite and I sing it whenever and wherever I play. I particularly like the last verse. It is timeless.

  • A real good source on Woody's life and work is "Woody Guthrie: A Life" by Joe Klein. On page 472 there is a handwritten version from 1940. It is signed Mary G. with a sidenote that it is the original version. In it the line "if this land is made for you and me' was written over 'God blessed America for Me".

    The stop sign verse is there but it started "a big high wall there, it tried to stop me'; so too is the relief office. A little different but present. Every performer leavea a mark.

  • THATS NOT THE ORIGINAL VERSION THEY ARE REWRITING SHIT AGAIN LIKE ARE HISTORY SIMPLE SONGS JUST THINK WHAT THEY DO ON THE REAL ISSUES THIS GUYS A PLANT UR NO AMERICAN TRADER

  • @seandouglas1 Actually I'm pretty sure it is the original version. Especially the last two verses about Stop sign and people in the relief office.

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  • It may be Woody's verses after he was hospitalized. Was this recorded for sing along with Mitch Miller?

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  • You probably wrote for Mitch Miller. When's the last time you fed a hungry man? or fought the corporate greed? You made a tourism jingle out of this sacred song of the disenfranchised.

  • Many Thanks!

  • @seandouglas1

    This ARE original verses, they just didn't sing teach them to us in school- Guthrie was a radical.

  • @seandouglas1 Maybe you should read up on Woody Guthrie. Guthrie wrote those verses and felt them completely.

    Are you also aware the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a Socialist?

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