“This Land Is Your Land” is one of the United States’ most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody, in critical response to Irving Berlin‘s “God Bless America.” When Guthrie was tired of hearing Kate Smith sing it on the radio in the late 1930s he sarcastically wrote “God Blessed America for Me” before renaming it “This Land Is Your Land.” [1]
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (born 1951) is an Israeli American rabbi and the founder and current president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which is headquartered in Chicago and Jerusalem.[1]
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The iron bit, primarily worn by slaves in the Southern United States, is also referred to as a gag and was used by slave masters and overseers as a form of punishment. The bit, sometimes depicted as the scold’s bridle, uses similar mechanics to that of the common horse bit.
Mrs. Sin says that is a fine start, but please don’t stop there!
I RECOMMEND READING ALL OF WIKIPEDIAS HISTORY ON THIS SONG. IF YOU WERE TAUGHT IT IN GRADE SCHOOL YOU WERE OBVIOUSLY RADICALIZED BY “CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS”, OR HIPPY “TREE HUGGERS”…….. HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
HI MRS SIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey — We were cheated. That song in the video is missing a verse:
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.
NOT in there. Poor Woody is probably rolling in his grave right now.
Howdy Koyote! I’m Uglier-n-Sin. And yes I feel lucky to be married to a woman known as Mrs. Sin. It has… its perks shall we say. Anyway, she asked me to make it clear that she was refering to the target not the song.