WORLD NEWS TRUST: Woody Guthrie: A little recession music, please (Mickey Z.)

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Dec. 4, 2008 -- If you were to open your mouth and belt out the words “this land is your land,” you could rest assured that someone nearby would add: “this land is my land.” The chorus to Woody Guthrie’s 1940 classic is common knowledge… as are the first couple of verses. But it ain’t until you get to the later verses -- those often omitted from official versions -- that you start comprehendin’ what good ol’ Woody had in mind:


As I was walkin’ I saw a sign there

And that sign said “No tresspassin’”

But on the other side, it didn’t say nothin’

Now that side 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


Woody sez: “This song is Copyrighted in United States, 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’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

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[RufusEarl]

1. One of my role models growing up in Oklahoma,

as a kid with hight hopes hearing Woody always made me smile. When i got older, my role models became Ken Kesey & Tim Leary. The sixties were good to me...

Peace!