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In article <DB9Cvt.Jqp@unx.sas.com>, saseph@hal.unx.sas.com (Ed Hughes) writes:
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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...
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>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.
>

I must apologize for correcting incorrectly!  I believe Springsteen does
sing the verse this way, but according to Pete Seeger, in "American Favorite
Ballads" and "The Incompleat Folksinger," the verse reads either

As I went rambling that dusty highway
I saw a sign that said private property
But on the other side it didn't say nothing
This land was made for you and me.

OR

Was a great high wall there
That tried to stop me.
Was a great big sign that said Private Property;
But on the other side
It didn't say nothin'--
This land was made for you and me.

I couldn't find any documentation for the Irving Berlin story; I think
that came from Springsteen's in-concert intro for the song.


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