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Soundtrack Challenge: Day 21 - This Land is Your Land

Istiqlál (Indepence), 15 Mulk (Dominion) 176 B.E. - Friday, February 21, 2020

Artist: Woody Guthrie
Title: This Land Is Your Land

Lyrics1

This land is your land and 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 went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
Saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me

I roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
All around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me

This land is your land and 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

When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The voice come a-chanting and the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me

This land is our land,
this planet is our planet--
we are children of the same God--
no matter where we roam upon it.

Building walls between human beings and nations only serves to enhance our xenophobia. Walls, which are equivalent to "no trespassing" signs, don't solve problems or stop wars. We have to communicate rather than build walls.

What would Woody Guthrie say
about what's going in America
and the world today.

This land belongs to the people and not the politicians.The Earth belongs to humanity, we can't separate the American land from the Earth because America is part of the planet. We need to respect the land instead of desecrating it by building walls.

Footnotes
1  https://www.metrolyrics.com/this-land-is-your-land-lyrics-woody-guthrie.html