太感動了﹗Pete Seeger唱Woody Guthrie原版的This Land is Your Land﹗

好感動﹗Pete Seeger在奧巴馬的就職慶祝活動中唱This Land is Your Land – 重點是他唱出了Woody Guthrie原作中常被刪掉的版本﹗多年來，美國學校都會教小孩唱這歌，這歌已有近於國歌的地位，但是卻把Woody Guthrie原來歌詞中提及私有財產和貧窮等有點點社會質疑的段落刪掉。諷刺的是，Woody Guthrie原來寫這歌時，是因為討厭那些只會叫人愛國的右翼、遠離社會現實的虛偽愛國歌曲的。幾十年來，Woody Guthrie的原意一再被扭曲，現在聽到近九十歲的Pete Seeger伯伯現場帶領幾百萬人、教大家一句一句再唱出Woody Guthrie原版，幾十年來被閹割的Woody Guthrie此曲的政治原貌重現江湖，實在太感動了﹗Woody Guthrie 泉下有知，一定會對老戰友Pete Seeger發出會心微笑吧﹗這些句子能夠通過奧巴馬團伙的審查而出現在總統就職場合，奧巴馬的血液仍有當年做過幾年基層社區組織時燃燒的火熱吧？旦願如此﹗


This Land is Your Land的歌詞：
As I went 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.

副歌
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.

I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
While all around me a voice was sounding
Saying this land was made for you and me.

(多年來一直被閹掉的段落)
In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
Sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn't say nothing;
That side 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
A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,
This land was made for you and me.