Anonymous ID: 51a3bd Aug. 20, 2020, 8:45 a.m. No.10358213   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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My bad. Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" popularized by Pete Seeger. I particularly like the reference to the "relief office".

 

This Land Is Your Land

Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

 

This land is your land, this land is my land

From California to the New York island,

From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;

This land was made for you and me.

 

As I was walking that ribbon of highway

I saw above me that endless skyway;

I saw below me that golden valley;

This land was made for you and me.

 

I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;

And all around me a voice was sounding;

This land was made for you and me.

 

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,

And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,

As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:

This land was made for you and me.

 

As I went walking I saw a sign there,

And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."

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

That side was made for you and me.

 

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,

By the relief office I seen my people;

As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking

Is this land made for you and me?

 

Nobody living can ever stop me,

As I go walking that freedom highway;

Nobody living can ever make me turn back

This land was made for you and me.

 

Aaand of course, there is lots of influence from his Jewish roots:

 

https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-folkie-and-the-yiddishist-could-be-friends/

Anonymous ID: 51a3bd Aug. 20, 2020, 9:04 a.m. No.10358446   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Pete Seeger, not to be outdone by Guthrie penned "If I Had A Hammer".

 

About If I Had a Hammer

 

"If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" is a song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the progressive movement, and was first recorded by The Weavers, a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. It was a number 10 hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962 and then went to number three a year later when recorded by Trini Lopez. The Weavers released the song under the title "The Hammer Song" as a 78 single in March 1950 on Hootenanny Records, 101-A, backed with "Banks of Marble".

 

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/1162509/Peter%2C+Paul+and+Mary/If+I+Had+a+Hammer+%28The+Hammer+Song%29

 

If I had a hammer

I'd hammer in the morning

I'd hammer in the evening

All over this land

I'd hammer out danger

I'd hammer out a warning

I'd hammer out love between

My brothers and my sisters

All over this land, uh

 

If I had a bell

I'd ring it in the morning

I'd ring it in the evening

All over this land

I'd ring out danger

I'd ring out a warning

I'd ring out love between

My brothers and my sisters

All over this land, oh

 

If I had a song

I'd sing it in the morning

I'd sing it in the evening

All over this land

I'd sing out danger

I'd song of out a warning

I'd sing out love between

My brothers and my sisters

All over this land, oh

 

Well, I've got a hammer

And I've got a bell

And I've got a song to sing

All over this land

It's the hammer of justice

It's the bell of freedom

It's a song about love between

My brothers and my sisters

All over this land

It's a hammer of justice

It's a bell of freedom

It's a song about love between my brothers and my sisters

All over this land

 

The Fifth Column infiltrated the entertainment industry early on.

 

https://www.liveabout.com/if-i-had-a-hammer-1322500

 

Aaand, there always seems to jews:

http://www.jewishaz.com/arts_features/arts_culture/peter-paul-and-life-after-mary/article_28200b12-e587-11e5-a2bd-87af043ea591.html