10 of Woody Guthrie's Songs/This Land

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THIS LAND
Words and music by: W.W. Woody Guthrie

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CHORUS:

This land is your land. This land is my land.
From the redwood forest to the New York island
The Canadian mountain to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.

As I go walking this ribbon of highway
I see above me this endless skyway
And all around me the wind keeps saying:
This land is made for you and me.

I roam and I ramble and I follow my footsteps
Till I come to the sands of her mineral desert
The mist is lifting and the voice is saying:
This land is made for you and me.

⁠Where the wind is blowing I go a strolling
⁠The wheat field waving and the dust a rolling
⁠The fog is lifting and the wind is saying:
⁠This land is made for you and me.

⁠Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land is made for you and me.