This Land is Your Land
          Words and Music by Woodie Guthrie

          Chorus
          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 was walking a ribbon of highway,
          I saw above me an endless skyway
          I saw below me a golden valley
          This land was made for you and me

          Chorus
          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

          I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
          To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
          And all around me a voice was sounding
          This land was made for you and me

          Chorus
          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

          The sun comes shining as I was strolling
          The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
          The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
          This land was made for you and me

          Chorus
          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 was walkin' - I saw a sign there
          And that sign said - no tress passin'
          But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
          Now that side was made for you and me!

          Chorus
          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

          In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
          Near the relief office - I see my people
          And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
          If this land's still made for you and me.

          Chorus
          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

           

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