{"id":1247,"date":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-woody-guthrie-this-land-1940-1945\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","slug":"primary-source-woody-guthrie-this-land-1940-1945","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/rangercollege-ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-woody-guthrie-this-land-1940-1945\/","title":{"raw":"Primary Source: Woody Guthrie, \u201cThis Land\u201d (1940-1945)","rendered":"Primary Source: Woody Guthrie, \u201cThis Land\u201d (1940-1945)"},"content":{"raw":"\u201cThis Land\u201d was written by Woodie Guthrie in 1940 and first recorded in 1944 at Folkway Records. According to folk singer Pete Seeger, Guthrie printed the songs\u2019 lyrics and music in 1955 with the note, \u201cThis song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don\u2019t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that\u2019s all we wanted to do.\u201d Song lyrics were first published in 1945.<\/em>\n\nAs I go walking this ribbon of highway\n\nI see above me this endless skyway\n\nAnd all around me the wind keeps saying:\n\nThis land is made for you and me.\n\nChorus:<\/em>\n\nThis land is your land. This land is my land.\n\nFrom the Redwood Forest to the New York Island\n\nThe Canadian mountain to the Gulf Stream waters\n\nThis land is made for you and me.\n\nI roam and I ramble and I follow my footsteps\n\nTill I come to the sands of her mineral desert\n\nThe mist is lifting and the voice is saying:\n\nThis land is made for you and me.\n\nWhere the wind is blowing I go a strolling\n\nThe wheat field waving and the dust a rolling\n\nThe fog is lifting and the wind is saying:\n\nThis land is made for you and me.\n\nNobody living can ever stop me\n\nAs I go walking my freedom highway\n\nNobody living can make me turn back\n\nThis land is made for you and me.\n\n[Source: Woody Guthrie, \u201cThis Land,\u201d 10 of Woody Guthrie\u2019s Songs<\/em> (1945). Available online via Wikisource <\/em>(https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/10_of_Woody_Guthrie%27s_Songs\/This_Land)<\/a>.]\n\n\u00a0","rendered":"

\u201cThis Land\u201d was written by Woodie Guthrie in 1940 and first recorded in 1944 at Folkway Records. According to folk singer Pete Seeger, Guthrie printed the songs\u2019 lyrics and music in 1955 with the note, \u201cThis song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don\u2019t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that\u2019s all we wanted to do.\u201d Song lyrics were first published in 1945.<\/em><\/p>\n

As I go walking this ribbon of highway<\/p>\n

I see above me this endless skyway<\/p>\n

And all around me the wind keeps saying:<\/p>\n

This land is made for you and me.<\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/em><\/p>\n

This land is your land. This land is my land.<\/p>\n

From the Redwood Forest to the New York Island<\/p>\n

The Canadian mountain to the Gulf Stream waters<\/p>\n

This land is made for you and me.<\/p>\n

I roam and I ramble and I follow my footsteps<\/p>\n

Till I come to the sands of her mineral desert<\/p>\n

The mist is lifting and the voice is saying:<\/p>\n

This land is made for you and me.<\/p>\n

Where the wind is blowing I go a strolling<\/p>\n

The wheat field waving and the dust a rolling<\/p>\n

The fog is lifting and the wind is saying:<\/p>\n

This land is made for you and me.<\/p>\n

Nobody living can ever stop me<\/p>\n

As I go walking my freedom highway<\/p>\n

Nobody living can make me turn back<\/p>\n

This land is made for you and me.<\/p>\n

[Source: Woody Guthrie, \u201cThis Land,\u201d 10 of Woody Guthrie\u2019s Songs<\/em> (1945). Available online via Wikisource <\/em>(https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/10_of_Woody_Guthrie%27s_Songs\/This_Land)<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

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