TIL This Land is Your Land was written in response to God Bless America
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2025-06-30 |
This song is dope, I remember preferring this over most other of our national songs |
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treadful lemmy.zip  treadful@lemmy.zip Joined: 2023-06-13 |
This just made me feel old. First reading that someone here was in high school so recently when the whole Trump deal was a thing, then realising that can mean it was 10 years ago...
This motherfucker has been in my mind space for too damn long. |
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2025-06-30 |
Oh that is so hard |
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2025-06-30 |
When I was in grade shcool in California in the 70s, we were forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of class each day (very common in school and government functions across the USA at the time), but also in my school, we would follow the pledge with the whole class singing a verse of This Land is your Land. I didn't understand or appreciate this until many years later.
Pledge of allegiance is still recited every day in schools |
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IamMoonPie lemmy.world IamMoonPie@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-09-09 |
See also Jesse Wells. Guy's cooking rn
Nah, Jessie wells is a useless tool. He talks a good talk, but when asked to speak about genocide he suddenly had nothing to say other than “I can see both sides”. He is a fence sitting centrist who realized the only way he’d make it is if he seemed like folk protest musician. He is not. |
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2025-06-30 |
One of my favorite versions of This Land by Las Cafeteras (just because I'm sure it upsets certain folks to hear Latinos singing the song) https://youtu.be/dS0OQ9HP3Oo
That's a pretty cool version, thanks |
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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net Joined: 2025-11-12 |
Don't they just go by AJJ now?
Quite possibly, you tell me! |
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SailorMoss sh.itjust.works SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-30 |
Guthrie would have opinions. Too bad you couldn't also show other songs of his, like Farmer-Labor Train and All You Fascists
Gutherie did have opinions on Trump('s dad). He wrote a song that he never recorded. https://youtu.be/ko4eafwSY_I |
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Quilotoa lemmy.ca Quilotoa@lemmy.ca Joined: 2025-04-01 |
We used to have to sing that, and "Oh Canada" every morning at school when I was little, although we had our own rendition... This land Is my land and only my land, I've got a shotgun and you don't got one, So if you don't get off I'll blow your head off, This land is mine and only mine,
We had our own version of Oh Canada. Oh Cannabis, our home and native plant... |
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JusticeForPorygon lemmy.blahaj.zone  JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone Joined: 2025-01-19 |
So when he heard “this land was made for you and me,” he didn’t hear that it belongs to everybody. He heard: this is OUR country. Damn that changes everything. I never even imagined the song that way.
For someone who based his entire career around music I noticed on multiple occasions that he was either willfully ignorant or just really bad at judging what a song is about |
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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone Joined: 2024-06-11 |
This motherfucker has been in my mind space for too damn long.
I'm convinced his existence and ascension have taken entire years off my life. I wish I never had to think about that putrid sack of shit ever again. |
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