{"id":2315,"date":"2009-01-18T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2009-01-18T18:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T23:19:50","slug":"this-land-was-made-for-you-and-me-we-sang-the-whole-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/18\/this-land-was-made-for-you-and-me-we-sang-the-whole-song\/","title":{"rendered":"This Land Was Made For You and Me – We Sang the *Whole* Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just back from the We Are One concert on the Mall.\u00c2\u00a0 More about that soon, but I wanted to get this up.\u00c2\u00a0 There were many wonderful moments, but the one that would have made all of the effort worth it – on its own – was Pete Seeger leading the entire Mall’s worth of people in singing This Land is Your Land.\u00c2\u00a0 And not just the first verses, but the whole thing<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what it looked like:<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n-PCpRWqXv8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

As sung today:<\/p>\n

This land is your land This land is my land
\nFrom California to the New York island;
\nFrom the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
\nThis land was made for you and Me.<\/p>\n

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
\nI saw above me that endless skyway:
\nI saw below me that golden valley:
\nThis land was made for you and me.<\/p>\n

I’ve roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
\nTo the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
\nAnd all around me a voice was sounding:
\nThis land was made for you and me.<\/p>\n

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
\nAnd the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
\nAs the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
\nThis land was made for you and me.<\/p>\n

As I went walking they tried to stop me
\nAnd on the sign it said “Private Property.”
\nBut on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
\nThat side was made for you and me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
\nBy the relief office I seen my people;
\nAs they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
\nIs this land made for you and me?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nobody living can ever stop me,
\nAs I go walking that freedom highway;
\nNobody living can ever make me turn back
\nThis land was made for you and me. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just back from the We Are One concert on the Mall.\u00c2\u00a0 More about that soon, but I wanted to get this up.\u00c2\u00a0 There were many wonderful moments, but the one that would have made all of the effort worth it – on its own – was Pete Seeger leading the entire Mall’s worth of people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}