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Subject: This Land Is Your Land
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Music
Asked by: beycheville-ga
List Price: $2.00
Posted: 16 Feb 2005 20:28 PST
Expires: 18 Mar 2005 20:28 PST
Question ID: 475804
looking for all the lyrics, including the ones that are rarely sung
that aren't quite so optimistic.
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Subject: Re: This Land Is Your Land
Answered By: pinkfreud-ga on 16 Feb 2005 20:51 PST
 
In the 1960s, I had the pleasure of attending a concert by the great
Pete Seeger. When he sang "This Land Is Your Land," he included all
the verses (unlike Peter, Paul, and Mary, who'd had a radio hit with
an expurgated version). Some of Woody Guthrie's words made the
audience gasp in astonishment.

Here you'll find the complete lyrics. The final three verses, as you
can see, are not all sweetness and light, but are a hard-hitting
political statement:

Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/This_Land.htm

It's odd how the memory works. In order to find the unedited lyrics, I
reached back into my mind some forty years, and this portion of the
song came to me, loud and clear, giving me a keyphrase to use in my
Google Search:

As I went walking I saw a sign there 
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." 
But on the other side it didn't say nothing, 
That side was made for you and me.

My Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: "this land is your land" "but on the other side it
didn't say nothing"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22this+land+is+your+land%22+%22but+on+the+other+side+it+didn%27t+say+nothing%22

I hope this is precisely what you need. If anything is unclear or
incomplete, please request clarification; I'll gladly offer further
assistance before you rate my answer.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 16 Feb 2005 20:55 PST
I meant to include this in my answer, but when I was cutting and
pasting, it somehow slipped away. You'll find some interesting
material and lots of good links here:

Educational CyberPlayground
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/woodieguthrie.html

~pinkfreud

Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 28 Feb 2005 17:15 PST
Here's an interesting bit of information: the organization that owns
the rights to "This Land Is Your Land" is displeased by the recent
association of the song with political events.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/26/commentary/wastler/wastler/

Somewhere, I can hear Woody Guthrie laughing.
Comments  
Subject: Re: This Land Is Your Land
From: silver777-ga on 17 Feb 2005 07:27 PST
 
Pink,

How did you manage to reach back into your mind some 40 years ago with
such clarity? Especially as you must have been only about 2 years old
at the time of course to remember such a rendition?

Phil
Subject: Re: This Land Is Your Land
From: pinkfreud-ga on 17 Feb 2005 10:44 PST
 
Phil,

Since I'm only 29 now, I was minus 11 forty years ago. Obviously I was
reaching back into someone else's mind, possibly my mother's. Or maybe
I was remembering a past life in which I was a folkie who hung around
Pete Seeger concerts memorizing things.

Then again, it could be that I'm a lot older than I let on. ;-)

~Pink
Subject: Re: This Land Is Your Land
From: capitaineformidable-ga on 18 Feb 2005 05:00 PST
 
Personally I believe that Pink is really 29 and that in:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=476274

she was answering some different question ;)

(What?s the fun in life if you can?t make a bit of mischief sometimes?)

Norman.
Subject: Re: This Land Is Your Land
From: capitaineformidable-ga on 19 Feb 2005 01:57 PST
 
FYI. For those interested in Woodie Guthrie music, Woodie?s daughter
Norah, was left hundreds and hundreds of previously unknown lyrics
after her father?s death. These were catalogued and two CD?s worth set
to music and released by Billy Brag in 1995 entitled:

Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1
Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2

Norman

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