Key: F major•
Verse 1
saw above me that endless skyway
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I saw below me the Golden Valley
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sing it out now this land was made
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In the diamond of the redwood forest
Verse 2
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This land was made for you and me
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To the sparkling sands
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Verse 6
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This land was made for you and me,
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from California to New York Island,
from the rainforest
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to the Boston waters,
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this land was made for you and me.
Now some of you are singing just beautiful,
but we need a little harmony.
All the high tenors, and all the basses,
and the contra mezzo -sopranos.
Everybody got it getting on us.
I mean everybody.
If there's anybody who's not singing,
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oh, people say, who are you?
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Verse 7
song books.
Here's one of them.
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In the squares of the city
Verse 9
By the welfare office
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I saw my people
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Verse 11
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I stood there whistling
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This land was made for you and me.
Sing it out now!
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to go to the highlands,
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This land was made for you and me.
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This land was made for you an d me
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I think Woody would be glad to know
that people are making up new verses
to this all over.
I've heard verses in Spanish
there ought to be verses in
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and Italian and Pol ish and Yiddish
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and Choctaw and Cherokee an
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d Kiowa also.
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but it once was my land,
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before we sold you Manhattan Island.
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This land was stole by you from me.
Now, there was a friend of mine,
named Jimmy Collier
singing this in Washington,
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D .C. back in 1968 in the Poor People's Campaign.
from the Sioux Indian delegation.
points his finger right in Jimmy's chest.
He says, hey, you're both wrong.
It belongs to me.
Jimmy stopped in the middle of the song.
He says, maybe we shouldn't
be singing this song.
But Henry Crow Dog
had a great sense of humor.
He says, no, if we're down here together
to get something done.
Let's all sing it.
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This land is your land.
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From California to New York Island.
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From the redwood forest
to everything living.
That's ecology.
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This land was made for you an d me.
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One more time!
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Outro 1
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ChordsF Bb C Gm
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