Pete Seeger - This Land Is Your Land

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
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 and me
I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparking sands of her diamond deserts
All around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
When the sun came shining then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
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 there hungry I stood there wondering if
This land was made for you and me
Was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Was a great big sign that said Private Property
But on the other side it didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me
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
Maybe you've been working as hard as you're able
But you've just got crumbs from the rich man's table
And maybe you're thinking was it truth or fable
That this land was made for you and me
Woodland and grassland and river shoreline
To everything living even little microbes
Fin fur and feather we're all here together
This land was made for you and me
This land is your land but it once was my land
Until we sold you Manhattan Island
You pushed our Nations to the reservations
This land was stole by you from me
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
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 and me
I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparking sands of her diamond deserts
All around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
When the sun came shining then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
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 there hungry I stood there wondering if
This land was made for you and me
Was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Was a great big sign that said Private Property
But on the other side it didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me
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
Maybe you've been working as hard as you're able
But you've just got crumbs from the rich man's table
And maybe you're thinking was it truth or fable
That this land was made for you and me
Woodland and grassland and river shoreline
To everything living even little microbes
Fin fur and feather we're all here together
This land was made for you and me
This land is your land but it once was my land
Until we sold you Manhattan Island
You pushed our Nations to the reservations
This land was stole by you from me
Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land

Today, May 3 2009, is Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. I can't make the big concert at Madison Square Garden to celebrate it, so this is my small tribute to him, ...

Pete Seeger - This Land Is Your Land

JUDY COLLINS, PETE SEEGER - "This Land Is Your Land" with ARLO GUTHRIE & FRED HELLERMAN 1976

Studs Terkel does the introduction to the beloved Woody Guthrie song, sung by Judy, Pete, Fred and Arlo in this 1976 broadcast from PBS studio in Chicago.

Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land (Live at Farm Aid 2013)

Pete Seeger performs "This Land is Your Land" with Farm Aid board artists John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews and Neil Young live at the Farm Aid ...

Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger - This Land Is Your Land

Live at Wolftrap, August 8, 1993, Classic Woody Guthrie song.

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