This 20th century classic was covered by many artists, including the likes of Bob Dylan and even Bernie Sanders, but the original was written and sung by Woody Guthrie. Written in 1940, it was first recorded in 1944, though this 1944 version excluded the 4th and 6th verses, the ones about private property and hunger.
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Dec 2, 2018 - “This Land Is Your Land” is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in. This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) 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 water, This land was made for you and me. As I went walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway, I saw below me that golden valley This land was made for you.
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Much like a Whitman poem, “This Land,” at least as it is sung in a vast majority of the tributes, represents things not as they are but as the author thinks they should be. And also like a Whitman poem, its romantic vision, which tries to realize the promise of freedom and equality, is often mistaken as an assessment of current social realities rather than an interrogation of them. To be sure few people know that Guthrie intended the song to serve as a Marxist corrective to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” and although biographer Joe Klein, Harold Leventhal, and Arlo Guthrie have publicized the fact since 1980, the song is so widely known and so widely sung that their efforts have had little impact on public perceptions of it. Because very few artists sing “This Land” in its entirety, it is virtually impossible to distinguish its patriotism from Berlin’s or even from more recent jingoistic songs such as Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” Like any other nationalistic anthem, it uncritically proclaims the United States the land of freedom and equality and lends credence to Guthrie’s reputation, in the words of Stewart Udall, as a legendary artist who expressed “the sense of identification that each citizen of our country feels toward this land and the wonders which it holds.”