This Land is Your Land - The Malleys

AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC 4 JULY INDEPENDENCE DAY

This Land Is Your Land - American Folk 4 July

This Land Is Your Land - American Southern Gospel

this land is your land, this land is my land
from california to the new york island
from the redwood forests to the gulf stream waters
this land was made for you and me
so i went walking that 8 lane highway
blood pressure rising alongside the crime rate 
stress and depression they show on my face
this land was made for you and me
i roamed and rambled and i followed my footprints
can’t help but feel like we’ve all been hoodwinked 
but uncle sam says that’s now whatchu should think
this land was made for you and me
the sun came shining, i’m feeling lively 
until an ice truck pulls up beside me 
the man inside wears a mask and wants my ID
this land was made for you and me 
inside a prison, that’s where they leave us 
they take our human rights away when they seize us
and the people that support it speak of jesus
this land was made for you and me 
in the square of the city, in the shadow of a steeple
by the relief office, i’d seen my people
they stood there hungry, i stood there asking
“is this land really made for you and me?”
nobody living can ever stop me 
as i go walking that freedom highway
nobody living can make me turn back
this land was made for you and me
this land is your land, this land is my land
from california to the new york island
from the redwood forests to the gulf stream waters
this land was made for you and me

this land was made for you and me


this land is your land (prod. brahman)

My Dusty Road

This Land Is Your Land

Let The People Sing  This Land Is Your Land

This land is your land, This land is my land

Though it has often been co-opted as a benignly patriotic campfire sing-a-long, "This Land Is Your Land" was actually written by Woody Guthrie in 1944 as a subversive protest song in biting response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." At my sister Samra's urging, we recorded our version in 2004, during the George W. Bush presidency, in an effort to re-establish it as a song about social justice.

Ironically, when Woodie Guthrie resided in Coney Island in 1950, his landlord was none other than Donald Trump's father, the infamously racist real estate mogul Fred Trump, about whom Guthrie composed his poem "Old Man Trump," including the lines:

     I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
     He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
     When he drawed that color line
     Here at his Beach Haven family project 

Using a dark re-harmonization of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as an intro, the Dap-Kings re-arranged "This Land" as a rough blues-y march, setting the tone for Sharon to tear into the lyrics of the song with the fiery gusto of a revolutionary. However, it was the inclusion of Guthrie's rarely-heard original verses that really enabled Sharon to reclaim the song as an urgent and unambiguous demand for equality and human dignity in a nation rife with social injustice and patriotic hypocrisy.

Today, as we inaugurate a rapacious billionaire to the highest office in the land, those original verses resonate with us as loudly as the day they were written:

     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

We are grateful to Woodie Guthrie and to Sharon Jones, two friends of the people and bitter foes of the Trumps, who have given us an essential soundtrack to our struggle. When times get dark, let us not crumble in fear and bigotry. Let us honor the unbreakable spirit of those tireless fighters who have fallen before us. Let us rise to the fight, and let us help each other never to forget this noble truth:

    This land was made for you and me.

-Gabe Roth

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "This Land Is Your Land"

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