This Land Is Your Land
Woody GuthrieSpringsteen's Verses | |
THIS LAND IS NOT OUR LAND As I was walking an endless breadline, My landlord gave me a two-week deadline. The local paper printed a better headline: "This Land Is Not For You And Me!" This land is their land. It is not our land. From your plush apartment to your Cadillac car land, From your Wall Street office to your Hollywood star land, This land is not for you and me. And take your slogan and kindly stow it. If this is our land, you'd never know it. Let's get together and overthrow it. This land was made for you and me. | Well 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 Well this land was made for you and me(1) Well once I rode that ribbon highway I saw above me an endless sky I saw below me a golden valley Oh this land was made for you and me(2) I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps Through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was crying It said this land was made for you and me (3) Well the sun came shining as I went strolling Through the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling And the bells were ringing and the fog was lifting And I seen this land was made for you and me (4) Now they're dying on the streets of New York and in Liberty City Down in Harlem County and on the streets of Brixton People watching, people worry If this land was made for you and me (5) And though they may try, they'll never stop me And though they may try, they'll never own me 'Cause I am wandering, and I know That this land was made for you and me (6) One Sunday morning in the shadow of the steeple By the Relief Office I saw the people And they were hungry and they were wondering If this land was made for you and me (7) I climbed a wall there that tried to stop me A painted sign there said "private property" But on the other side it didn't say nothing That side was made for you and me (8) Nobody living can ever stop me As I go walking my freedom highway Nobody living can make me turn back This land was made for you and me (9) |
(2) Verse 1 (example taken from the live 19 April 1981 version)
(3) Verse 2 (example taken from the live 28 April 1981 version)
(4) Verse 3 (example taken from the live 13 May 1981 version)
(5) Verse 4 (example taken from the live 26 May 1981 version)
(6) Verse 5 (example taken from the live 14 Sep 1981 version)
(7) Verse 6 (example taken from the live 04 Sep 1985 version)
(8) Verse 7 (example taken from the live 18 Jan 2009 version)
(9) Verse 8 (example taken from the live 18 Jan 2009 version)