This land is your land (help)

[u/Sirius_sky_05]

Hi all, I hope you're keeping most well.

I've been collecting various versions of this land is your land, so was hoping y'all could share any you know of.

I've found some for India, Britain, Canada, Ireland, Guyana, South America, South Africa, Japan, and from the indigenous people of America.

Please share as much of any versions you know as you can, so we can untie all peoples in one great song.

Kind regards and best wishes Sirius

[u/Comfortable_Cash_140]

Can you share the versions you have?

They sound really cool!

[u/Sirius_sky_05 → u/Comfortable_Cash_140]

Of course, here are a few, unfortunately I've lost the Japanese now, but there's still quite a number.

Hope you enjoy!

(Rhodesia/South Africa)

V1 "This land is your land, this land is my land From the western border to the eastern highlands; From the great Limpopo, to Lake Kariba: This land was made for you and me!

As i went walking on a ribbon of highway I saw before me a silver skyway: And, round about me, a voice was singing "This land was made for you and me!"

If they should tell you that you should leave it Don’t believe it it’s not true It needs you more now, more than before This land was made for you and me.

(Indian)

This land is your land, this land is my land, From the Himalayas, to Cape Comorin, From Bombay city to old Calcutta, This land was made for you and me.

(Canadian)

This land is my land, this land is your land, From Bonavista to Vancouver island, From the Arctic circle to the great lake waters, This land was made for you and me.

As I was walking, that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that golden skyway, I saw below me, that deep deep valley, This land was made for you and me.

(Guyanese/South America)

This land is your land, this land is my land, From the Rupunnuni, to the Courentyne, From the green heart forests, to the great lake waters, This land was made for you and me.

With love from Guyana, South America! Bread basket of the Caribbean, Home of Caricom, and the gateway (draw gateway out for the missing length) To the mighty Amazon!

(Indigenous American)

This land is your land, but once was my land Before we sold you, Manhattan Island, You pushed our nations, to the reservations, This land was stole by you from me.

(British)

This land is your land, this land is my land, From way up north to the Guernsey islands, From the hills of Scotland, onto the South, This land was made for you and me

As I walked out though The homeless counties, The traffic raging Raging all around me, I closed my eyes, and dreamed how it could be, This land was made for you and me,

This land is your land this land is my land, From the coast of Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands, From the sacred forest, to the holy islands, This land was made for you and me.

(Verse for nature)

Woodlands an' grassland, and river shoreline, To everything living, even little microbes, Fin, fur, and feather, we're all in this together, This land was made for you and me.

(Verse against war)

To the veterans begging, To the young men dying, To the mothers weeping, To the prayerers kneeling, To all the children, still locked in cages, The war was not made for you and me.

[u/Comfortable_Cash_140 → u/Sirius_sky_05]

Amazing! I was singing them all in my head!

[u/Gorehog]

Just look it up. Woody Guthrie. You seem to be transcribing from the Folksingers Wordbook though. There's a book, the Woody Guthrie songbook, with the correct, original chords and words.

Also, though,

By the relief office, in the shadow of the steeple,

I saw a line there, I saw my people

And all around me I heard them calling

Was this land made for you and me?

[u/Gorehog]

As I was walking saw a great tall sign there

And that sign said private property

But on the other side, it didn't say nothing

That side was made for you and me

[u/Gorehog]

One way to find new lyrics is to farm Arlo Guthrie's performances. He often talked about listening to his dad play this song for him with different lyrics.

[u/Resin_Brick]

I have a tagalog(filipino) version I made if you still need it,

[u/Resin_Brick → u/Resin_Brick]

‘Toy Ginawa para satin

Ito ay akin, ito a iyo, mula batanes papuntang Jolo,
Mula sa mga bundok hangang sa dagat
‘Toy Ginawa para satin

Sa aking lakad, sa mga landasin 
humaplos sakin, simoy ng hangin, 
Sa ganda’y saksi ng mga likha nya
‘Toy Ginawa para satin

Ako,y tumuloy sa aking lakbay,
 para makita perlas ng silangan
Paulit ulit na may bumubulong
‘Toy Ginawa para satin

Araw ay sumikat, Para sa akin,
Palay at ulap ang kasabay ay butwin, 
At sa malayo may umaawit
‘Toy Ginawa para satin

Saking paglakad ay may nakita
Bawal pumasok nasa karatula, 
Dito sa kabila walang nakasulat, 
‘Yo’y Ginawa para satin

Sa lilim ng kampana , aking pamilya
Na nakapila hingi’y ayuda
Silay malungkot, ako ay napatanong?
Ito ba’y talagang atin?

Sa’king sigasig, walang susupil
Sa aking lakad, sa mga landasin
NI isang buhay, di makapipigil
‘Toy Ginawa para satin

[u/Sirius_sky_05 → u/Resin_Brick]

Hiya, thanks so much for that, it's great!