"This Land is Your Land" - песня американского певца и музыканта Вуди Гатри. Она является ироничным ответом на "God Bless America" Ирвинга Берлина, которую Гатри считал оторванной от реальности. Гатри написал её в 1940 году на мелодию песни группы Carter Family "When the World’s on Fire". В словах песни отразился тот факт, что Гатри любил бродить пешком, да и вообще путешествовать по стране. В ней Гатри рисует панораму Соединённых Штатов от Калифорнии до Лонг-Айленда как большой страны, которая теперь живёт не по тем высоким принципам, на которых была основана. При этом сама песня очень простая — в ней всего три аккорда и довольно ребяческие стихи.
Певец записал её в 1944 году, но запись увидела свет намного позже, в 1951 году, когда песня уже стала известной и пелась на политических митингах, став почти что неофициальным гимном США.
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This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the red wood forest to the Gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I was walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me
I've roamed and rambled and I 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
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, it said private property
But on the back side it didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting
This land was made for you and me
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said: No trespassing
But on the other side it didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people
By the relief office I seen my people
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking that freedom highway
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me