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|title=This Land is Your Land

|author=Woody Guthrie and Kathy Jakobsen

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|pages=32

|publisher=Little, Brown and Company

|date=September 1998

|isbn=0316392154

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You all know those words, right? Just in case you don't (and then shame on you), they form the chorus of one of America's most famous folk songs, penned by possibly its most famous folk musician, Woody Guthrie. I love Woody Guthrie; to me he's the John Steinbeck of music. He spent a lot of time hitching across the states, singing, like all good folk musicians sing, of the things he saw. Like Steinbeck, he is perhaps most famous for the parts of his work that tell of the terrible effects the Great Depression of the 1930s had on the ordinary American people - he saw those people with clear and compassionate eyes and yet his music about them never lost a sense of hope or an invitation to community.

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