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“This Land Is Your Land”: The Story Behind America’s Best-Known Protest Song(pfffttttt)
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| 6/30/2019
| Kenneth Partridge
Posted on 05/01/2020 10:50:48 AM PDT by rktman
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Just a rehash article about a song I have always hated. Progressive messages adding nuance to patriotism? Guess it depends on your daffynition of patriotism or progressive messages or nuanced................
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:50:48 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:52:57 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: rktman
"Few songs are more ingrained in the American psyche than "This Land Is Your Land,"
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:53:21 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
To: rktman
Total commie tune. Worthless pos. Should be outlawed and replaced with Proud to be an American
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:53:43 AM PDT
by
albie
To: mylife
As I was walkin’
Through open country
I saw a sign
Said “Private Property”
But on the other side
It didn’t say nuthin’
That side was made for you and me
From one of the latter verses that you NEVER hear.
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:54:20 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: rktman
i do remember a variation i used tovsing in elementary school
this land is my land
this land ain’t your land
i got a shotgun
and you don’t got one
if you don’t get off
i’ll blow your head off
this land
is private property
somehow appropriate comsidering the governments we are under right now
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:54:46 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: mylife
Woodie was a commie.Of the very filthiest type!
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:55:21 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Jimmy Crack Corn is more engrained than that pos
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posted on
05/01/2020 10:58:05 AM PDT
by
albie
To: rktman
Our son has performed with The grandchildren of both Guthrie and Seeger. Made us a bit nervous, especially when Seegers grandson sang I might be right, I might be wrong, I have the right to sing this song. I think at that point Mr. Mercat, being a vet, got up and left. I went too. Since we were in Canada I pointed out later to our son that his friend had the permission to sing the song, not the right because- no 1st Amendment in Canada.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:01:55 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Buckeye McFrog
Well don’t I stand totally corrected?
I love that song.
I had no idea it was so nasty in parts.
Thanks y’all for enlightening me.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:02:55 AM PDT
by
Fishtalk
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:04:26 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Fishtalk
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:04:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Fishtalk
Woody was flat out commie.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:06:14 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
> Woodie was a commie. <
During the war Woodie carried around a guitar that said This machine kills Fascists.
Why say Fascists and not Nazis, a young person might ask. Its because the Nazis were National Socialists. And leftists would rather you not know that.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:07:13 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: Fishtalk
The history of Woody Guthrie is worth a read. It was the last time there was a serious effort to drag this country into Communism. Knowing what he was all about you’d likely never look at any of his music the same way again. You probably remember his protégé Pete Seeger who was still putting this stuff out there as recently as the ‘00s.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:07:49 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: mylife
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:08:04 AM PDT
by
Fishtalk
To: Buckeye McFrog
The only Woody Guthrie song I know of the subject of this thread.
Why would anyone WANT to be a Communist?
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:09:55 AM PDT
by
Fishtalk
To: rktman
He goes and steals some farmer's apples and then complains that the farmer reproves him for it.
Sadly as many small farmers will tell you this attitude is all too common.
Good fences (and a couple of guard dogs) make these people much better neighbors.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:10:25 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
To: rktman
"Few songs are more ingrained in the American psyche than "This Land Is Your Land,"Unless, of course, you're less than 90 years old.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:10:31 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(BLACK LIVES MAGA)
To: Leaning Right
Yes, he had it on all his instruments.
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posted on
05/01/2020 11:11:50 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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