This Land Was Made For You and Me

[Vox_Reason]

For you and me--for hope--for what we know America can mean--let's work together to make Mr. Guthrie's words ring truer than ever, that indeed, this land was made for you and me.

The work we are doing is just started--there is much yet to do.

We can do it if we continue to keep our eyes on the so-precious prize and determine anew to reach it.
For our fellows, for our children, for the less fortunate among us--we MUST reach it.

The last verse asks on behalf of the disadvantaged--is this land still made for you and me?
Let's each of us find a way to work to answer that question in the affirmative.


THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie

Chorus:
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
This land was made for you and me

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

Chorus

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

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no trespassin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin'!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

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.

Chorus (2x)

©1956 (renewed 1984), 1958 (renewed 1986) and 1970 TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (
BMI)

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