This Land is Your Land

Woodie Guthrie

Written by Woody Guthrie

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                           G
This land is your land, and this land is my land
D                      G
From California to the New York island
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From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
D                              G
This land was made for you and me

Verse 2

C                      G
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
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And I saw above me that endless skyway
C                   G
I saw below me that golden valley
D                              G
This land was made for you and me

Verse 3

C                              G
I roamed and rambled, and I've followed my footsteps
D                             G
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
C                G
All around me, a voice was sounding
D                              G
This land was made for you and me

Verse 4

C                                     G
There was a big, high wall there that tried to stop me
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A sign was painted said "Private Property"
C                       G
But on the backside, it didn't say nothing
D                              G
This land was made for you and me

Verse 5

C                               G
When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
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And the wheat fields waving, and the dust clouds rolling
C                             G
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
D                              G
This land was made for you and me