Artist: | Woody Guthrie (English) |
User: | ralph estes |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
"This Land is Your Land" (D)
Woody Guthrie. Many of his songs are in the Library of Congress. Father of folk singer Arlo Guthrie. This song recorded by many, including Bruce Springsteen. You may have sung it at some time.
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[D] This land is [G] your land, this land is [D] my land,
From Cali-[A7]-fornia to the New York [D] Island,
From the Redwood [G] Forests to the Gulf Stream [D] waters;
This land was [A7] made for you and [D] me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I looked above me, there in the skyway,
I saw below me, the Golden Valley;
This land was made for you and me.
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I roamed and rambled, and followed my footsteps
Through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts,
And all around me this voice kept saying,
"This land was made for you and me."
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As the Sun was shining, and I was strolling
Through the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
I could feel inside me and see all around me,
This land was made for you and me.
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Additional Guthrie verses, not originally recorded by him
because the βRedβ scare was rampant:
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.
The sign was painted, said 'Private Property.'
But on the backside, it didn't say nothing.
This land was made for you and me.
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple,
by the relief office I saw my people.
As they stood hungry,
I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.
When the sun comes shining, then I was strolling,
With the wheat fields waving, the dust clouds rolling,
The voice come a-chanting, and the fog was lifting.
This land was made for you and me.
Add chorus between verses, of course