THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

Woody Guthrie

This land is your land, this land is my land
From the redwood forest to the New York island.
From the snow-capped mountains to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.

As I go walkin' my ribbon of highway
I see all around me my blue blue skyway
Everywhere around me the wind keeps a-whistlin'
This land is made for you and me.

I'm a-chasin' my shadow out across this roadmap
To my wheat fields waving, to my cornfield dancing
As I go walkin' this wind keeps talkin'
This land is made for you and me.

I can see your mailbox, I can see your doorstep
I can feel my wind rock your tip-top treetop
All around your house there my sunbeam whispers
This land is made for you and me.


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Version by Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I see above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land is made for you and me

This land is your land, this land is my land
From The Californias to the New York island
From the redwood forrests to the Gulf Stream Waters
This land is made for you and me.

I roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparklin' sands of the diamond desserts
And all around me, the voice comes soundly
This land is made for you and me

This land is your land, this land is my land
From The Californias to the New York island
From the redwood forrests to the Gulf Stream Waters
This land is made for you and me.

The fog was lifting, and I was strolling
The wheat fields waving, the dust clouds rolling
The storm clouds building, and the voice comes a-chanting.
This land is made for you and me

This land is your land, this land is my land
From The Californias to the New York island
From the redwood forrests to the Gulf Stream Waters
This land is made for you and me.