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In article <DB9B80.Dwq@unx.sas.com>, sastph@jaeger.unx.sas.com (Tim Hunter) writes:
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>In article <kes-0507951401520001@kenmac.bootp.duke.edu>, kes@acpub.duke.edu (Strayhorn) writes:
>|> Ya see, patriotic music doesn't have to be *boring*.
>
>I'm not sure just why my brain made this connection (as Steven Wright once
>said, "I don't know about you, but my brain is really...bossy") but for what
>it's worth, about 10 years ago I saw Arlo Guthrie at Memorial Auditiorium.
>He sang his daddy's old anthem, "This Land is Your Land," but he included
>some verses that Arlo claimed Woody wrote but that they don't teach in school.
>One went (I'm doing this from memory, so excuse me if it doesn't quite scan)
>
>       As I was walking along a highway
>       I saw a sign (that) said "No trespassing."
>       And on the other side, it didn't say nothin'.
>       This land is made for you and me.
>
>Good ol' Woody...

That last line should read "That side was made for you and me."
That's the way it is in "American Favorite Ballads" by Pete Seeger,
and that's the way Bruce Springsteen sings it in concert.

Woody wrote "This Land Is Your Land" as a protest song of sorts,
an angry response to Irving Berlin's newly-released "God Bless America."
At least that's the way I remember hearing it.


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