New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music

will be on exhibit in the Atchison County Historical Society Museum from Nov. 14 through Dec. 28, 2008

the museum is located at 200 S. 10th Street, in the Santa Fe Depot, Atchison, KS 66002

913-367-6238 or GoWest@atchisonhistory.org

This Land is Your Land

original lyrics

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 tress passin’
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.

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

CONTEST

The contest is simple - use your talent to create new lyrics for
the Woody Guthrie song This Land is Your Land

- lyrics that mean something special to you, to Atchison County, to Kansas or to US today in 2008. Submit the lyrics with your name, address, phone, email and if you wish a recording of your new This Land is Your Land. Mail or email to address below by December 17th.

Name __________________________________________ Address __________________________________
City_______________________ State ____ Zip ______ Phone _____________ Email __________________

send completed contest entry to
Atchison County Historical Society, P.O. Box 201, Atchison KS 66002 or atchisonhistory.org
winners will receive T-shirts and have their song played on KAIR Radio & featured in the museum!

download a PDF of the entry blank complete with the original lyrics by Woody

Need some ideas - some other variations on

This Land is Your Land

a Jib-Jab Bush Kerry version

Wikipedia entry - various other country variations

Nationmaster Encyclopedia - scroll down for variations/parodies - Native American version

Story on a Symphonic Version of This Land

NPR story on This Land as one of the NPR100 - scroll down to see This Land & play RealPlayer recording of original radio show

Woody Guthrie Foundation - Lyrics and Much More

More Wiki on Woody

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie singing This Land on You Tube

This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. - What Woody Guthrie wrote and distributed about This Land is Your Land

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