folk music

This Land is Your Land

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen sing Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” at the Obama Inaugural Celebration Concert on 1/18/09. Several “subversive verses” that have been censored for being overtly political were restored to this traditional folk song that refer back to the Depression years: 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;