Strummer’s Corner: This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

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  1. Chorus
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This land is your land, this land is my land 
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From California to the New York Island
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From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
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This land was made for you and me.

Verse 1

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As I went walking that ribbon of highway
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I saw above me that endless skyway
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I saw below me that golden valley
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This land was made for you and me.

Verse 2

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

Verse 3

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When the sun came shining, and I was strolling
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And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
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A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,
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This land was made for you and me.

Verse 4

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

Verse 5

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In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
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By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
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As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
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Is this land made for you and me?

Verse 6

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Nobody living can ever stop me,
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As I go walking that freedom highway;
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Nobody living can make me turn back
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This land was made for you and me.