Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land

TheKatkat72 Says:

Jan 21, 2012 - This is not about Communism. This is an orignal folk song about a man's travels in this wonderful country.

u0455294 Says:

Jan 21, 2012 - @TheKatkat72 You're an idiot. Woody Gutherie wrote this song to talk about how much it sucked to be poor in America during the great depression (and since then.) The line "this land is your my land this land is my land" is about how this country was created for the people in this country and now it just belongs to the wealthy and the corporations. It's also not about Communism, the song is about how this country had so pathetically failed to live up to it's promise for so many people.

u0455294 Says:

Jan 21, 2012 - This is song is about how America was created to be a place for everybody, and created with the highest ideals. It's also about how the country has failed to live up to those loft ideals for so many people.

TheKatkat72 Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - @u0455294 You are the idiot. This song was written in 1940, long before big business took over the country. Woody Githerie .

rutaloot Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - @TheKatkat72 For one the US has always been ruled by big business much like any other country on earth just go read about Standard Oil, the railroad companies, mining companies, etc all of which were pre-1940 and secondly would you people stop arguing over something so stupid...If there is one thing Woody believed was that we should work for the better of each other not create stupid divisions amongst each other like being communist or not 

u0455294 Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - @TheKatkat72 You have a lot to learn. A.) Big business has run this country since the middle of the nineteenth century. B.) Woody Gutherie became a staple of the union movement during the Great Depression. When millions of Americans couldn't find work, the Okies were being exploited throughout California, and strike breakers were beating union members Gutherie became a symbol of solidarity. You should try reading "The Grapes of Wrath" and you'll get a better understanding of Gutherie's world.

u0455294 Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - @TheKatkat72 Try looking up the lyrics.

u0455294 Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - Here, everyone do this. Imagine Woody Gutherie is singing this song to an Okie in California, and asking him to compare his world with what guys like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were intending and it'll make a whole lot more sense.

KhaarJoon Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - I am 13 years old and I apologize for what my generation has done to music

slkaiser69 Says:

Jan 24, 2012 - @KhaarJoon No need to apologize, just enjoy all generations worth of good music. Even Woody Guthrie and his son, Arlo, though generations apart both contributed music worth listening to in their own inimitable ways. Right?

whately1978 Says:

Jan 25, 2012 - I learned that this song was sung to Will Geer on his deathbed. (A perfect tribute) Geer was 'Grandpa Walton' from the Waltons. He was an old hippie who to his misfortune was blacklisted by the likes of Joe McCarthy in the dark ages of the 50's. My god, how many lives did McCarthy ruin?

mikess56 Says:

Jan 27, 2012 - sorry about my last comment posting many times, I just kept trying again after it said that it failed to post the first time

HeadHunteR1988 Says:

Jan 28, 2012 - @diaurus84 Excellent comment my friend. I am brother with you.

gastonave Says:

Jan 28, 2012 - I don't agree with his political views but I still love his music.

MsBalter Says:

Jan 31, 2012 - Many people know and love this song in Italy too. Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck represent the really best of America.

tranurse Says:

Feb 2, 2012 - @whately1978 a lot. if you get a chance, watch 'the front'. it's a woody allen movie all about the people ruined during the witch hunts. at the end of the movie, before the credits, there is a list of all the people ruined.

billslusser Says:

Feb 4, 2012 - Thank you for fucking my life up Mr. Guthrie. It's a joke fight. It's out of style. My life is more worthless now than ever. I AM LEAVING. KEEP YOUR LAND.

prairierose1014 Says:

Feb 4, 2012 - wow....do people come here just to get all crazy and talk bullsh** about religion, government and who is right or wrong, putting each other down? I just came to listen to a song about a man who had a life and a belief and was different than me or maybe you...oh no, that must mean he was stupid or crazy or communist or out to destroy someone or something....people are strange nowadays...its okay to think differently remember?

KhaarJoon Says:

Feb 5, 2012 - @slkaiser69 yeah i guess your right i just think its such a shame in what the mainstream rubbish has done to music.Well at least Tom Morello is still writing music and he is just a legend so it not all bad haha

BenjiQ575 Says:

Feb 8, 2012 - @prairierose1014 The irony being that Woody's guitar has "This machine kills fascists" on it, with people arguing below it.

puursuitofhappyness Says:

Feb 8, 2012 - i remember jammin out to this with my dad when i was lil lol good timees

BenjiQ575 Says:

Feb 9, 2012 - Whenever he says "My land" Aboriginals come to mind. Such is life in Terra Australis..

tpaigeme Says:

Feb 11, 2012 - thanks for posting my video...I first heard Woody Guthrie's records that my brother had in 1967, and was like, 'you can do that and they'll put out a record?'...nothing slick just a real person, not even a singer, but a great songwriter, obviously....I guess that appealed to me...and reading his book was a lot of fun too...Bound for Glory...great writer..

tpaigeme Says:

Feb 11, 2012 - @KhaarJoon Thank you...maybe I should apologize to my ma. She's 90...but she brought the Beatles album home one day...before that my sister brought Elvis and the Everly Bros. She listened to the radio...and it was great too...There was crap then and there is crap now...you have to sift through it...

tpaigeme Says:

Feb 11, 2012 - I think my version beats the crap out of Bruce Springsteen. Nothing against Bruce...but I can't lie...