Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land

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  • @tomachanaud8211
    @tomachanaud8211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    I. Met Pete Seeger When I was a little girl. He came to my school. And I had met him at the door and I let in. He had come to talk to the kids about littering. He sang, and even got me to sing. I was six years old , and he told me that he believed that one voice singing out could change the world. I never forgot him. He was a voice that certainly did change the world! A wonderful man! An inspiration!
    -Tomalyn Sexton

    • @loosie5224
      @loosie5224 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      😀

    • @BreaktheTrend
      @BreaktheTrend 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​​@@loosie5224gorgeous little anecdote. Thanks for sharing. What a gift he was. God bless his wonderful spirit

  • @surfpunk1197
    @surfpunk1197 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    How blessed Pete got to perform with his grandson. LOVE this song. RIP Pete. We need you now more than ever

  • @brucehooke7535
    @brucehooke7535 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    This hard week, it's so good to hear and remember Pete Seeger. We need to gather like this now.

    • @n3n3b3n3
      @n3n3b3n3 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      we need a new party for the working class

  • @NYSTEAPRES
    @NYSTEAPRES 4 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    When my daughter was in first grade, her school played a "patriotic tune" every morning over the PA system. I introduced her to this song, asked her if they ever played it, and discussed the backstory. She approached the Principal and asked to have it added to the "patriotic list" Unwittingly the Principal agreed. In 2018, as a college student, she was leading a "social advocacy DACA support" event on the streets of NYC, handed out words to the song and led members of a whole new generation in singing this with enthusiasm. Plant the seeds early and often!

    • @mjremy2605
      @mjremy2605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Excellent parenting job! Model parent, thank you for raising the Right Stuff!

    • @robertquietphotographer
      @robertquietphotographer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Great! Well done!

    • @marcschneider4845
      @marcschneider4845 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Probably banned in Florida today.

    • @caroltubeyou
      @caroltubeyou 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Caroda_band that’s not sharing a prejudice. It’s reminding their offspring of the beautiful nation we live in from the standpoint of nature. It’s a celebration. I hear no politician’s voice in this, no political party. No religious message. No black or white or brown or yellow… this country’s future can only be improved upon when we the people take ownership, and protect the land and take care of each other.

    • @caroltubeyou
      @caroltubeyou 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@philipduttonlescorlett I still hear nothing but honesty there. No politics.

  • @Andile0
    @Andile0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    I was not aware Pete Seeger passed until now after listening to the song: "This land is your land". I had lunch with him and a few others in New Jersey when I visited the USA in 2013 from South Africa. He sang one song for us with his type of guitar. May you rest in peace, Pete. You served God's purpose in your generation.

    • @brianjansen3103
      @brianjansen3103 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I saw him play in Monticello NY that same year, he never stopped doing what he loved

    • @gjortsvang100
      @gjortsvang100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brianjansen3103p

  • @DonB.-Mulefivefive
    @DonB.-Mulefivefive ปีที่แล้ว +79

    The world has gone more silent with the absence of Pete Seeger.
    We miss you Pete.
    More than words will ever convey.
    🕯🕯

  • @joanfuller8313
    @joanfuller8313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    When you see that crowd, amazing crowd & everyone was happy, different races, different age groups, etc. Big fan of Seeger & he was so happy. Singing his best buddy's song, Woody. Not one child doesn't learn that song in school. No praise from the writer, Woody Guthrie. Not like star spangle banner, America, they are told them. I made sure my child knew who wrote it. May the folk singers always live on in our hearts. It what we need now more than ever to reach out to America & the World. Love them.............

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So well said

  • @douglasdaniel4504
    @douglasdaniel4504 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1806

    I love how Pete slipped in the radical verses that get left out of most versions of the song. This is a great American song not because it sings the praises of the country and the people, but because in its full version it has the guts to call a spade a spade and tell us we're not all the way there yet.

    • @tidsportalen01
      @tidsportalen01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut the ones with the relief office and private property

    • @tidsportalen01
      @tidsportalen01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut he truly is

    • @joannklodt9744
      @joannklodt9744 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Laswer5 6

    • @bubbalong7646
      @bubbalong7646 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      He a comminist!

    • @mcaddicts
      @mcaddicts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      It was written as a anti facist song.

  • @andydaniel2
    @andydaniel2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I had the great pleasure to interview Pete Seeger around 1980 for our college radio station, WRPI. Jackie Alper, who sang with Pete and the Weavers, had a a show on WRPI and suggested I go talk to him. He was in a park in Albany where he had sailed with his sloop the Clearwater, and was giving a public demonstration on how to bend wood using a steam box to build your own boat. For all his fame, he was a very non-pretentious guy. I've always liked Bruce Springsteen as well and have so much respect for Bruce's publicizing Pete Seeger to a new generation through his Seeger Sessions recordings.

  • @ejoseph2881
    @ejoseph2881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +526

    I’m sure glad Pete wasn’t here to see the past four years, but I know he’s with us today. 💙🇺🇸💯‼️

    • @carolwax3928
      @carolwax3928 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      No, Pete WAS here these past four years -- he was present in every voice that spoke out against hate and injustice. He was here in every person who protested. He was present in every song, every essay, every act that resisted Trumpism. Pete only left physically -- his spirit and the lessons he taught us live on, urging us not to be silent.

    • @gothicfan51
      @gothicfan51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@carolwax3928 Well, hopefully it will guide us in resiting Biden as well.

    • @waynerembert3116
      @waynerembert3116 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@carolwax3928 TRUMPISM? Like support for prison reform, due process and ban on gun bumps?

    • @richeggleston
      @richeggleston 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      in his speech tonight, Joe Biden echoed a lot of the things that Pete stood for. Pete and Joe would have marched together..

    • @culhaner
      @culhaner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh yeah!!

  • @ChristopherFynn001
    @ChristopherFynn001 10 ปีที่แล้ว +980

    "A great high wall there tried to stop me
    A great big sign there said: 'Private Property'
    But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
    That side was made for you and me."

    • @Darklord1201FTW
      @Darklord1201FTW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Christopher Fynn dude fr that’s genius

    • @Darklord1201FTW
      @Darklord1201FTW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      This land was made for you and me! RIP Pete Seeger, a true legend and hero!

    • @kenkunz1428
      @kenkunz1428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@yahulwagoni4571 Yes, Native People should tell everybody else to get the fuck out!

    • @tribequest9
      @tribequest9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Natives have no claim to this land, most died out and the rest are happy to trade the land for white mans fire water.

    • @youandican2
      @youandican2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@yahulwagoni4571 - This land doesn't have room for your hate! Go find some other land for your type of hate

  • @christophermaxieii8727
    @christophermaxieii8727 10 ปีที่แล้ว +630

    I don't have to say rest in peace to you Pete. You lived peace. Good bye you beautiful, beautiful, man.

    • @symphonylarose6453
      @symphonylarose6453 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Amen, and amen, Christopher, and thank you for saying it! :-)

    • @cukka99
      @cukka99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Wow, this comment is the most beautiful thing I've read of late.

    • @junemckellips8249
      @junemckellips8249 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why would you say that, Aiden? There are so many wonderful humans, people at the Presidential Inaugural Concert for President Obama!!

    • @xx5zi
      @xx5zi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@aidenmunnelly8315 no. Every ethnicity was visible there, and it's a very beautiful, very American thing.

    • @tomthomas6856
      @tomthomas6856 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cukka99 I only know I saw an angelfs glow in the eyes of that strange little girl

  • @ianloasby3833
    @ianloasby3833 9 ปีที่แล้ว +427

    Thank the lord that the original lyrics can be sung nowadays. God bless you Pete!!!

    • @Sonicguy95
      @Sonicguy95 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I remember watching Farm Aid's videos of him. I thought, man he's still good and kicking.
      He died four or so days after....
      Need to buy a longneck banjo sometime.

    • @comontater
      @comontater 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't believe he sang all the verses. He only sang the feel good verses.

    • @Pernicion
      @Pernicion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@comontater No, not all the verses were sung, I think there are 11 verses (6 in the original, which Woody expanded over time).
      But they did sing the 3 verses that have historically been excluded because of their seditious content. "Relief Office", "Private Property", and "Freedom Highway".

    • @dontaylor7315
      @dontaylor7315 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Pernicion Thanks for that info! I knew which verses the Weavers didn't do but I didn't know there were so many verses.

  • @sandragruhle6288
    @sandragruhle6288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Has it occurred to most of us how much the folk/protest music of the 1960’s and later influenced changes in the US cultural attitude? We owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who stuck their chins out and used their talent as the impetus to change. Pete Seeger was one of the first, but there were many, many more. Thank you!

    • @kenchristie9214
      @kenchristie9214 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This song was from 1940.

  • @carolynzniewski3875
    @carolynzniewski3875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    When Pete (along with so very many others) were black-llisted by HUAC and was unable to get regular concert gigs he started giving concerts for grade school kids all over the US. Now that was genius! How many of us remember singing this song in grade school? It is a all-American Classic!

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He was blacklisted for being a member of the Communist Party. I don't think that was fair. But Pete seemed to make it all look like he was just a picked-on liberal for singing about peace and love.

    • @austoncole2144
      @austoncole2144 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have always wondered how some can be so strong to sing such simple truth. @@SandfordSmythe

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe ปีที่แล้ว

      @austoncole2144 This gets complicated under the rules of the CP USA. He was doing agitprop, propaganda agitation. But that doesn't bother me much because I think he believed in the intrinsic good of his ideals.

    • @manfredAnsel
      @manfredAnsel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How are you doing Caro, Hope you don't mid knowing each other

  • @MegHammil
    @MegHammil 8 ปีที่แล้ว +678

    Watching this performance live was one of the greatest moments of my life...think about all the people who had tried to blacklist and dismiss Pete Seeger over the years, and there he was at the Lincoln Memorial playing for the man who was about to become President. Of course he had to sing all the words to what ought to be our National Anthem. I kept thinking, well Pete you outlived your haters. I think Bruce was thinking the same thing.

    • @joseph_b319
      @joseph_b319 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Hopefully his grandson Tao's music will get the reconnection it deserves.

    • @bartvanos1466
      @bartvanos1466 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Meg Hammil

    • @johnnypastrana6727
      @johnnypastrana6727 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yeah, but no progress was made...all pretty and empty speeches.

    • @johannedoucet2084
      @johannedoucet2084 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      but we must never ever give up!

    • @benjamindavid5681
      @benjamindavid5681 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I do not do this often. However I sense a common bond between u. We both love this country and yet want to find a common way to change it. I have some ideas on this. get back to me. maybe together we can connect people or at the very least I sense a common bond that we might explore. David

  • @aaa-xd3jj
    @aaa-xd3jj 10 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    RIP Pete Seeger. The world is a better place because you once lived here...its sadder place now that you are gone.

    • @blackcountrybricks8839
      @blackcountrybricks8839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      In a sense, I’m glad he’s not in here. He would be in tears to see what has happened to his country and the world for that matter.

  • @Airlessarc
    @Airlessarc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    Pete just looks so happy, he's like a Grandfather on Christmas.

    • @shillstradameus4164
      @shillstradameus4164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      He was so happy. Because he thought that maybe we finally won.

    • @anthrocultur5116
      @anthrocultur5116 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@shillstradameus4164 We will win yet. Just don't give up.

    • @philipbuckley759
      @philipbuckley759 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      here is someone that used his talents, to spread his message......and that is freedom, of expression...

    • @flautalee3090
      @flautalee3090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      His elf hat adds nice touch, doesn’t it!!

    • @thatpickingguy
      @thatpickingguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@shillstradameus4164 Gosh, thats so sad, but true.

  • @z2010able
    @z2010able 4 ปีที่แล้ว +441

    And today, this song brought tears to my eyes.

    • @trishafurrbaker
      @trishafurrbaker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes.

    • @---uf2zl
      @---uf2zl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Today we finally go walking that ribbon of highway

    • @dianebloom
      @dianebloom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, such hope and happiness! Who is the other guitarist? Bruce Springsteen?

    • @terrynorton3182
      @terrynorton3182 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It wasn’t that bad.

    • @bonniesager718
      @bonniesager718 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aww

  • @michaelpaoli5996
    @michaelpaoli5996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    One of the greatest and most patriotic protest songs ever. We've been blessed by courageous writers and singers like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger

    • @adamwsaxe
      @adamwsaxe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Guthrie wrote it as a protest against fascism. Holding up the USA as a great example against the Nazis, Fascists, and Imperial Japanese.

    • @michaelpaoli5996
      @michaelpaoli5996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@adamwsaxe yes it was written during the war but he wrote other songs with lyrics that were clearly anti-fascist and anti-Hitler. This does not have such lyrics. The more common thought is it was a reaction to the changes in our lifestyle and freedoms coming out of the depression and into the restrictions of war. Wiki even states it as a reaction to the sacharine God Bless America by Irving Berlin. And it was apparently not released to the public until way after the war was over.

    • @LMvdB02
      @LMvdB02 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@adamwsaxe It was a reaction to God bless america and, to me, sounds quite a bit anarcho communist.

    • @johnbrown5958
      @johnbrown5958 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LMvdB02 because he was a socalist ape

    • @samanwaysanket12345
      @samanwaysanket12345 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnbrown5958 you mad bro???
      Cope harder.

  • @lillianward2810
    @lillianward2810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I was at this concert and one of my most treasured memories was hearing hundreds of thousands singing this together.

  • @JoeFoster-n9p
    @JoeFoster-n9p ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is so beautiful. Its a shame we all can t live in peace and harmony. We need to love are country and all the people in it. God bless you all.❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @caroltubeyou
    @caroltubeyou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Pete Seeger was a force of nature and a leader we could all love and trust. I am stunned to see just how sharp his memory was as late as this event.-- he was 90 years old and still standing, still playing, and still singing.

    • @dean5220
      @dean5220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello Carol, How are you doing?

    • @mattyk19751
      @mattyk19751 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am a conservative and yes, it is remarkable that Pete was this present so late in the game kudos to him

    • @manfredAnsel
      @manfredAnsel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah you are right, I so much enjoy is music .. How are you doing. Hope you don't knowing each other

  • @nancydrew25
    @nancydrew25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +732

    And today, this song brought tears to my eyes for my lost country.

    • @williamkirk7800
      @williamkirk7800 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Someone should play this at one of his rallies to troll Trump and the MAGAts.

    • @Bream243
      @Bream243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      "lost country" is exactly what it is

    • @johnkardas9618
      @johnkardas9618 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      A truly beautiful song, and to think that the US is about receiving the down trodden, the lost etc it received Trumps ancestors or Trumpf as we should remember the Germanic side of his family. I ask the question why so many beautiful songs about inclusion, sharing, love and righteousness to all, but from a Country that does not live that way in any way shape or form. Are you not embarrassed, ashamed, shocked and disgusted by your land and why do you not do anything about it? Have you lost your minds or are you all hypocrites?

    • @Bream243
      @Bream243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@johnkardas9618, The bottom line is, we can't afford to take care of all these people.

    • @youandican2
      @youandican2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@Bream243 - the real bottom line is we can't afford the hate towards fellow human beings.....

  • @nalinir5092
    @nalinir5092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This song always, always brings tears to my eyes. As an immigrant, my love for this country knows no boundaries. I just wish all who come here and live here will see we are all one. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @omairhq
      @omairhq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In tears too I bought this lie for nearly 30 years

  • @commercialcommunication9298
    @commercialcommunication9298 8 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Pete Seeger, words can not describe what a beautiful treasure he was.

    • @nancyj.ellington6407
      @nancyj.ellington6407 ปีที่แล้ว

      Saw him at the Village Vanguard in the Village i think in the late 1950's. Yep...am 80 years young. Despair what's happening to our country... not really ours anymore

    • @garycallihan4206
      @garycallihan4206 ปีที่แล้ว

      As for Bruce, simply nothing and a profound disappointment.

  • @artemisecstasy
    @artemisecstasy 10 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    no one was stopping Pete from singing all of Woody's verses.

    • @danielburns3240
      @danielburns3240 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @Lauffles yeah capitalists were scared

    • @flintknudsen2155
      @flintknudsen2155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      "This land is your land. This land is my land. We stole it from the Native Americans..."

    • @thomascombs9859
      @thomascombs9859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@flintknudsen2155 Actually, it was shared by all, as land was plenty and people were few. But later huge populations arrived and basically squatted on the land to grab a piece. The Indians did not know how to cope with this, neither did the government, until violence begat violence, and the Indians suffered the most. The song "My Country Tis Of Thy People Your Dying" tells some of the story.

    • @Zen-rw2fz
      @Zen-rw2fz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Apparently he said he was o ly going to perform there if he was allowed to sing the whole thing and he was allowed to, so really cool actually.

    • @iloveass8851
      @iloveass8851 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@flintknudsen2155 here's another version where Pete adds some extra lyrics about natives: th-cam.com/video/rYKaLs7A4zM/w-d-xo.html

  • @marilynlarosa7449
    @marilynlarosa7449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Let's Get back to this Day again

  • @christinedureau3467
    @christinedureau3467 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    What a moment this was! The world rejoiced. Seems like a distant dream now. Thank the gods for this kind of record. And wonderful to see this happen while Seeger lived.

  • @micheleerwin2848
    @micheleerwin2848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I truly believe every parent owes it to their children to teach them about Pete Seeger! If things like this were to be taught in school, I think kids might have a fighting chance to be happy, accepting, and kind to one another.
    Stop the hateful music, the stuff that speaks of saying woman are objects, and is full of disrespect towards others.
    We miss you, Pete!! You are much loved, and I hope and pray your legend lives on in our young people's lives.

    • @HenriettaHudson-we4wv
      @HenriettaHudson-we4wv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      PLEASE VOTE BLUE/DEMOCRAT 2024!!! BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!!! LET'S GET THIS COUNTRY UNITED!!! STOP PROJECT 2025!!!

  • @drmarx48
    @drmarx48 10 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    Was a big high wall there that tried to stop me,
    Was a great big sign that said, "Private Property,"
    But on the other side, it didn't say nothing,
    That side was made for you and me.
    Nobody living can ever stop me,
    As I go walking my freedom highway,
    Nobody living can make me turn back,
    This land was made for you and me.

    • @purpleflametarot39
      @purpleflametarot39 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you!

    • @kennethkearns2901
      @kennethkearns2901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is song talks about the country we had and the principles that we lived by. We surly do not have it now, we can get it back and we will. All we have to do is utilize the gift that was given to us and that is VOTE. VOTE Trump and the fools that serve him out.

    • @comradewildcat1770
      @comradewildcat1770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@kennethkearns2901 No, this song talks about the injustices of the system we live in, where those with money have everything, while the majority are left with breadcrumbs. America has always been like that, it's ingrained into the system of capitalism, injustice and class division. Pete Seeger was a communist. He saw the injustices and he wanted to fight them. His way of fighting was by singing beautiful songs that pointed out the hypocrisy that the supposed land of the free is only free for those at the top, while everyone else have to work their asses off everyday to survive. That's not freedom, that's slavery.

    • @lexyswope
      @lexyswope 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I got a comment that I'm digging my own grave when I dissed trump. I regret that I have one life to give for my country.🏄‍♂️

    • @rustinusti
      @rustinusti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kenneth Kearns The song is literally about communism you shill

  • @alangordon2831
    @alangordon2831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Pete Seeger brings out the best in people. His face is aglow. At 90 years old he looks youthful and beautiful. If there is something great about America it is right here in this video.

  • @SilentRyd
    @SilentRyd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This is the first time hearing Seeger and calmly tears started flowing out of me. I don't know why. But I do know I'm thankful to my Rock History professor for having this song be a part of this week's listening list assignment.

    • @London755
      @London755 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's been a year. probably a good time to listen to it again.

  • @Mickyboi1
    @Mickyboi1 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    One of the most beautiful, unifying songs ever written

    • @deeclark8769
      @deeclark8769 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is to me Jacobite Bhoy but today some would deride it as "woke". I am however, a proud member of "the woke mob". I think Pete would have been happy to be there with me.

    • @ldt1973
      @ldt1973 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And also definitely a fighting song, a brave challenge to those who would claim everything for themselves. This land was made for you AND ME.

  • @marctompkins3001
    @marctompkins3001 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My daughter came to visit me as I was in rehab when Pete passed into his rest. She asked me I I knew who he was, of course I knew who he was. I has his dvd’s in my personal collection. Anyway, I was in rehab far from home when I learned of his passing. I know Pete is sleeping in his grave, waiting for the creator to whisper Pete’s name, and wake him out of his slumber. On the last day of earths history. John 5:28-29. I truly believe that 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 will be a glorious day, as that’s when eternity begins, Being with our creator for eternity.

  • @calvinnay814
    @calvinnay814 10 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    the music in heaven will be that much richer now...God Bless you, Pete Seegar.

  • @codycottle1228
    @codycottle1228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Thank you Woody for writing this amazing and timeless piece of art, and thank you Pete for spreading the message for multiple generations to hear and carry on. Rest easy legends, you’re both bound for glory!

  • @alexlaza5301
    @alexlaza5301 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Guthrie and Seeger! True heroes of the American people!

  • @CFAPA
    @CFAPA ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When I got out of the infantry after doing two tours in Iraq knee deep in the shit mercing motherfukers I decided to unwind by traveling across the United States of America with no destination, just to see the beautiful country I fought for, and I have never been treated with more disrespect than in my own country, the people of America from small towns are the worst, the land of the free is a myth, the United States is one of the most Draconian unfree places in the world, but with a little bit of elbow grease the next generation can change that and truly make this a country that is free.

    • @HenriettaHudson-we4wv
      @HenriettaHudson-we4wv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!

    • @andreykaminskiy2391
      @andreykaminskiy2391 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't think you fought for your country. You followed the orders of the people who own the country, that's all.

    • @brad1368
      @brad1368 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      No matter where you go you will find disrespect, but also love and acceptance...the question is which you choose to focus on.

  • @mindfulnessatplaywithmarci2079
    @mindfulnessatplaywithmarci2079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Tears to my old eyes too, at 75, a former professional singer until the pandemic had other plans for me. This song was a staple... Bless Pete and all of us, carrying forward the task of creating economic, social, racial and environmental justice for all. With a song in our hearts. With a vision of true Community.

  • @bobbyjordan37
    @bobbyjordan37 8 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Mr. Pete Seeger - you worked your whole life for humanity of all men and God has given you a very long life
    You will always remain in the memories

  • @ximenabustamante6510
    @ximenabustamante6510 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thank you dear brother, Pete Seeger for your heart-led music. Inspired by your work may I do my daily work contributing to justice in the world. Farewell sweet and beloved Pete Seeger.

    • @m_brokenleg
      @m_brokenleg 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Forever between us, sweet, great, wonderful man.
      In Franco's dark days, being myself a late teen, his songs teach us joy, sharing..and hope: "We Shall Overcome", sweet Pete. We did!! Thank you for sharing your songs with us. Forever grateful. Today I feel as my GrandPa has died!

    • @DSosland
      @DSosland 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thank you for such a beautiful thought Ximena, nothing could honor him more.

  • @FraggleSocks
    @FraggleSocks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    WOW, when America was really great.

  • @lwt9132
    @lwt9132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you Pete for all the work which you did for people all around this world. Thanks for singing the songs of our brothers who died in Spain. Thanks for all the songs . Gracias .
    ¡No pasarán!

  • @kitkat55plus
    @kitkat55plus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watching this today, American Thanksgiving, I was torn....loving the song (which I learned to sing in grade school) and the performance...but experiencing sadness of the days gone by and what we once had in this country, but have no more. Such a loss to the people.

  • @starfire746
    @starfire746 8 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Got to admit it. Pete Seeger was an inspiration to the working class etc. Pete seeger also was a great living folk singer of our time.

    • @deborahcazalas297
      @deborahcazalas297 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Pete AND Woody

    • @ulrichwill496
      @ulrichwill496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deborahcazalas297 👍👍👏👏❤️❤️🇨🇭🇨🇭

  • @eddie1917o
    @eddie1917o 10 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Thanks comrade. As Brecht wrote:
    There are men who struggle for a day and they are good.
    There are men who struggle for a year and they are better.
    There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still.
    But there are those who struggle all their lives:
    These are the indispensable ones.
    Thanks Petw and Woody.

    • @DialecticalMaterialismRocks
      @DialecticalMaterialismRocks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Wagner PD that's nothing but a myth. I wish i would be financed by sorros

    • @comradewildcat1770
      @comradewildcat1770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      More like there are those who struggle for a lifetime, those are the insignificant ones. The ones who as soon as they start breaking down are thrown out and replaced receiving no gratitude for their work. The ones most alienated by our system. Collectively indispensable for the system, but individually worth nothing. Together we have the force to completely shut down the system. The rich business owners would have nothing if it weren't for the work we've done for them. But in return we get only a fraction of the worth we create.
      When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
      There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
      Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
      But the union makes us strong.
      Solidarity forever, comrade!

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brecht had his reputation tarnished in East Germany when the Stalinists tired to liquidate the German communists who had survived Hitler. He was said to have had a cozy relationship with the Stasi.

    • @eddie1917o
      @eddie1917o 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SandfordSmythe I’m nor sure I quite follow what you mean on the following points:
      i) “Brecht had his reputation tarnished in East Germany”: my question is by whom?

    • @eddie1917o
      @eddie1917o 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SandfordSmythe ii) “when the Stalinists tired to liquidate the German communists who had survived Hitler”: I really don’t know what you mean here, I know that after the war the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was formed by merging the Communist Party of Germany and Social Democratic Party of Germany and that Stalin proposed the reunification of Germany in a country that could guarantee "the rights of man and basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, religious persuasion, political conviction, and assembly

  • @heatherheyser3140
    @heatherheyser3140 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    RIP your voice.. your energy.. your love of music will be missed greatly. Your voice brings the spirit of Home back to the soul... thank you for the sharing of your gifts...

  • @agnescleary2312
    @agnescleary2312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Now THAT'S an innauguration crowd!!

  • @annedane8934
    @annedane8934 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for putting this on. I listen to it again and again. I remember a demonstration for integration in education at the Lincoln Memorial in the cold early spring of 1958. How we sang, and how we rejoiced. I had never seen so many people in all my born days. Thank you. Thank you.

    • @dean5220
      @dean5220 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Anne, How are you doing?

  • @guz11aug
    @guz11aug 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As i started playing guitar my sister gave a present to me - Pete Seeger´s Songbook. I practise day for day and this song was the first result i could play. Thanks so much Pete, R.I.P.

  • @lastmango57
    @lastmango57 10 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    RIP Mr. Seeger. The voice and conscience of several generations.

  • @RabidHappy
    @RabidHappy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    This wasn't even a decade ago and it seems like a lifetime ago compared to where we are now as a nation. So much hope, optimism and unity. Now it's about scapegoating, xenophobia and division.

    • @eva-lenaholmgren6400
      @eva-lenaholmgren6400 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It is up to you to turn The US right again. We can not do it, but we Will support you.

    • @walterthemusician8741
      @walterthemusician8741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's time for everyone to stand up for change, before it's too late. TH-cam and Facebook are part of the problem. They spread the lies and hate that brought Trump to power. There are people spreading lies, false conspiracy theories, Vaccine denying, covid-19 denying, climate change denying, mask denying and more. Some of them are paid trolls who sit in office buildings or warehouses in front of computers along with hundreds more around them, spreading lies on our social media!
      There are Senators and Congressmembers investigating Facebook, Twitter, and TH-cam spreading hate and missinformation. There is an advertizer boycott with over 1,000 companies and growing. The boycott includes Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, Microsoft, Verizon, Adias, Unilever, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, Coke, Pepsi, Hershey, Clorox, Rebox. The 1,000 companies (and growing by the day) have joined the Stop Hate For Profit movement started by the Anti Defamation League, NAACP and other
      civil rights groups..
      Contact Proctor And Gamble, General Motors, Nike and others asking them to join in the "Stop Hate For Profit" movement.th-cam.com/video/7OqtditR4Rw/w-d-xo.html
      1

    • @philipbuckley759
      @philipbuckley759 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@walterthemusician8741 Trump is a good president......and has done great things, for the USA.....the dems lost an election, get over it...get a candidate....how much lying has been directed at Trump.....all the lies against his administration....

    • @philipbuckley759
      @philipbuckley759 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eva-lenaholmgren6400 MAGA

    • @jacksonthesyndicalist2771
      @jacksonthesyndicalist2771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@philipbuckley759 you're so deluded. History, and the American people will condemn him for his crimes

  • @dancallahan5707
    @dancallahan5707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    ISNT it a shame , were we have come to in a few yrs , 2020 seems like a century away from this song , I truly shed tears for the country i and most of us once had hope in

    • @dylanwhitney180
      @dylanwhitney180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's always been like this, the mask has just come off in recent years and they're doing in public what they just used to do in private.

    • @majkus
      @majkus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Woody Guthrie also wrote some cogent lyrics, later set to music, called "Old Man Trump", about Roy Trump's racist color-line policies (and an unrecorded verse to 'I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore' also refers to Old Man Trump in similar terms).
      When Obama was elected, we got wonderful events like the one in this video, and far too many of us became complacent. As Brecht wrote at the end of 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' (a dark-comic parable about the rise of Hitler), “Don’t yet rejoice in his defeat, you men! / Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard / The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”

    • @flautalee3090
      @flautalee3090 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I truly hope we’re moving back on track. May 2021.

    • @terrid7827
      @terrid7827 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I cried tears of joy that day. Have shed a lot more tears in the past 5 years, but very few of them have been tears of joy.

  • @fanniefinefair376
    @fanniefinefair376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I found this today and was so moved, thrilled and delighted to see how beautifully done it was back in 2009. It is just a wonderful and befitting in 2020. Sang with it and enjoyed so much. I will teach my Grandkids this song.

  • @Saidmore1
    @Saidmore1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Rest in peace to a great and kind man, a gentle spirit who taught us all to live together, to build a nation of the many not of the privileged few. May your spirit endure and cast a shadow over the vitriol in this nation. May your songs continue to lift us up and move generations to come.

  • @beintelegant
    @beintelegant 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    One of my absolute teenage heroes, while today's footballers and soap stars are ok I guess, I'll stick with Guthrie, Billy Bragg, and Jersey Bruce, and above all, Joan Baez and Bob, wow Bob,....they taught me to care for others and what good is....God Bless you Pete...have fun on Big Rock Candy Mountain.....

  • @epelegrillopart
    @epelegrillopart 10 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Thanks for everything, Pete.

  • @simsim7935
    @simsim7935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What happened to this Land, our Land? I cried through the whole song? Such a beautiful song and beautiful words and an amazing group of singers. May God help us all. We can still have hope to heal our Land.

    • @ChristopherORourke-s7g
      @ChristopherORourke-s7g 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It should & really ought to be the national of anthem of the United States of America, but it isn’t at all for no reason.

  • @maggievp
    @maggievp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is hope! We miss you Pete! I hope you are smiling and singing today. ❤️🤍💙

  • @johnpetry5321
    @johnpetry5321 10 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Thank you Pete. You were a true American patriot.

    • @johannesvongalt5705
      @johannesvongalt5705 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Amen.
      Spoke -- no, sang -- truth to power.
      Called on it by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee -- the most perfectly-named element of the Congress ever, as Mr Seeger joyfully pointed out. (He offered to sing them his songs. They demurred.)
      Charged with contempt of Congress -- as every patriotic American right now should certainly have.
      Go with God, Mr Seeger.

    • @dontaylor7315
      @dontaylor7315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@johannesvongalt5705 Pete showed Americans how to be patriots. I think Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden were moved by the same spirit he embodied.

    • @carljones7466
      @carljones7466 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is he native American ??? That's an American

    • @ImperiumRomanum476
      @ImperiumRomanum476 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@carljones7466 Native American here.
      So long as people unite together to fight the tyranny which rules over the proletariat, anyone is welcome. The past is done. We must move forward together. Solidarity forever!

  • @thearabicfacilitator
    @thearabicfacilitator ปีที่แล้ว +6

    yes indeed it is your land, it is my land

  • @DaudiMajozi
    @DaudiMajozi 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    *Farewell Pete Seeger! Thank you for uplifting our hearts and hopes and reminding us of our best. This rendition in 2009, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for Pres. Obama's inauguration, brings tears to my eyes. May your spirit live on through these songs. National Troubadour.

    • @SuperAnimelover100
      @SuperAnimelover100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      David Anderson
      Well said you decent man ! :)

  • @yrtnook
    @yrtnook 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for this video that I found to commemorate Pete Seeger's birthday. I was blessed to crew twice on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater.

  • @mcoguyaj
    @mcoguyaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Watching this over the 4th of July weekend and never seeing it before brought tears to my eyes. What a great inclusive song about America and now this video is going into my favs.

  • @h2oboater
    @h2oboater 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Everytime I watch this video I tear up a little ...
    We miss you Pete !!
    The world could do with alot more like you ... 👍👍
    ❤❤❤❤

  • @johnmcquilkin
    @johnmcquilkin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Is this the best song every written or what? This rendition of "This Land Is Your Land" with the choir is amazing! 😀 😀 😀

  • @grizzlybear4
    @grizzlybear4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can never tire of this. We have to get back to it. VOTE.

    • @HenriettaHudson-we4wv
      @HenriettaHudson-we4wv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      THANK YOU!!! IT'S UP TO US TO MAKE AMERICA A FREE COUNTRY, AGAIN!!!

  • @marycatherine5439
    @marycatherine5439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Today September 2, 2020 is the birthday of Pete Seeger and he is 101 years young and still living through us who always believed in him with honor knowing Pete Seeger will always continue to live through us,,,,,the people .....This Land is Your Land..USA.

  • @cathieludemann5879
    @cathieludemann5879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video makes me smile. Brings back so many good memories. Gives hope for the future. Remaining optimistic going forward.
    Happy Birthday, America!! 🇺🇸 🎂 🗽 🎇 📜 🎉 🇺🇸

  • @marycatherine5439
    @marycatherine5439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This Land is Your Land is an amazing song lasting forever through the freedom highway.

  • @KennethBarr1957
    @KennethBarr1957 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Thank you for preserving this historic performance.

  • @DIANA-rv7zn
    @DIANA-rv7zn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I forget never Peter Seeger!Great Folksinger Thank You!!🙏🕊

  • @monicaager7490
    @monicaager7490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I cannot watch this without feeling joy. Absolutely beautiful!

  • @hypatia12002
    @hypatia12002 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This fills me with joy as it did in 2008, and wistfulness and hope now, that we can be what Pete Seeger envisioned.

  • @suedogg49
    @suedogg49 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a great contribution to American history. I feel blessed to have lived in the time he walked among us. R.I.P. Pete. You will be sorely missed, but never forgotten. You left a legacy for the generations.

    • @dean5220
      @dean5220 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Susan, How are you doing?

  • @janetgreensmith9544
    @janetgreensmith9544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Yes, we can! Watching this and singing along just lifted me out of the anxiety that has been weighing me down. Everybody sing!

  • @aquariusrizing
    @aquariusrizing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember this! My Grandpa Todd and he were close friends. Watching BHO sing along was amazing! Small world indeed.

  • @debrabeck9630
    @debrabeck9630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you, Woody. Thank you, Pete, for sharing all the lyrics. Listening to this July 4, 2022.

  • @Taalneuroot
    @Taalneuroot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m not American, but I watch a lot of American and global politics. To say things in my home country, the Netherlands, are a mess, would be an understatement. The same goes for the world as a whole. Not only the pandemic, but also climate change, inequality, homophobia, racism and poverty.
    Over the past two years, I’ve watched this video over and over and it has given me many different emotions. I have felt melancholic and sad about the state of the world, knowing what it was and could be. But it has also made me hopeful and determined. We, whether it’s the Netherlands, Europe or the US, can achieve incredible things when we work together. At times, I feel desperate and hopeless, but I can’t and won’t give up on humanity. What goes around comes around, we’re all in this together. It’s my strongest, deepest belief and I’ll always fight for that.

  • @kathrynmccreary5703
    @kathrynmccreary5703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dear Pete, how we miss your voice, and your belief that we can make a better world for everyone. Amazing, yes. And never to be forgotten.

    • @dean5220
      @dean5220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello Kathryn, How are you doing?

  • @peterhall5269
    @peterhall5269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Pete Seeger - and I think Bruce Springsteen - really understood what I deeply believe - that we are all human and should not treat one country or one 'race' as more important than another. We should all work together. Something we can see and hear in this excellent performance.

  • @JDSackman
    @JDSackman 11 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "Great big sign there - said Private Property,
    But on the other side - it didn't say nothing.
    THAT side was meant for you and me!"
    Pete Seeger was there. He knew what Woody was trying to say.
    THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND - THIS LAND IS MY LAND

  • @rbernard6685
    @rbernard6685 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    We were on weekend break from summer camp at Fort Drum and we drove to Montreal. Walking the Blvd. downtown to my surprise Pete Seeger was performing and I was able to get seats.
    The legendary icon brought the house down with his performance and audience participation. That was back in the 60's and remembered like it was yesterday.

  • @soumalyachakraborty9848
    @soumalyachakraborty9848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    After ten years, you are still relevant. Especially in this tumultuous times. Lots of love for you pete. Happy birthday.

    • @hooleyqueen
      @hooleyqueen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pete Seeger will still be relevant in 100 years, and beyond!

  • @donward1587
    @donward1587 10 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    We've become a culture of cliches when it comes to how we live our lives, with Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven Life" being just one example.
    I challenge anyone to find a better example of a purpose driven life than Pete Seeger. He devoted his long and glorious life to the causes he believed in from opposing Hitler and fascism to the civil rights movement to cleaning up his beloved Hudson River, to the occupy movement of 2011 and we are all better off because of him. May he rest in peace.

    • @jlaws63
      @jlaws63 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +1000

    • @DialecticalMaterialismRocks
      @DialecticalMaterialismRocks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      occupy wallstreet won't change the world though

    • @zenodotusofathens2122
      @zenodotusofathens2122 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are mistaken. . From Atlantic Magazine.
      Pete Seeger's anti-war performances from those years are revolting. He and his musical colleagues sang anti-war songs in 1939-41 because, in the Soviet Union, Stalin had decided that an alliance with the Nazis was a good idea; and the order to support Stalin had gone out to every Communist Party in the world; and Pete Seeger was, in those days, a good Communist.

  • @comradedamo1405
    @comradedamo1405 9 ปีที่แล้ว +858

    You don't need to be American for this to apply to you. The idea of the song is that we all share the world.

    • @imatifoso2782
      @imatifoso2782 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A bizarre reading of the lyric. Remember the Dust Bowl was the impetus for the song.

    • @chalondavis6798
      @chalondavis6798 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Comrade Damo the song was written by woody guthrie, a communist and supporter of the CPUSA

    • @glennredwine289
      @glennredwine289 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      yes, Carl Carlson, written by Woody Guthrie in response to the thievery of the leaders of the banks and the captains of industry who triggered the Great Depression, same thievery who triggered the financial collapse of 2008. My father and grandfather lived through those terrible times. 25% unemployment & no unemployment insurance. Grandpa lost his job in 1934 and couldn't one till 1942 since no one hired 50+ y.o. men in those days. God Bless FDR--Franklin D. Roosevelt for giving us Social security, the WPA & the CCC-- Civilian Conservation Corp , LBJ--Lyndon Baines Johnson for Medicare and Barack Obama for the affordable care act.

    • @sassycassgames3158
      @sassycassgames3158 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Drew Haney No, it definitely means that this land belongs to everyone. It doeant say, "This land belongs to the state." It says, "This long was made for you and me."

    • @vicent436
      @vicent436 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Old Spanish empire, yes

  • @charlesdixon552
    @charlesdixon552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Peter Seeger looks so happy singing for a president at almost 90 years old! Thanks for the memory!

  • @johannaa6986
    @johannaa6986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Listening to this rendition reminded me of how hopeful we were when Obama was elected... Seeger changed the lyrics for this inauguration the lyrics changed are
    “on a sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the relief office, I saw my people. As they stood hungry I stood there wondering, “IF THIS LAND WAS MADE FOR YOU AND ME ? “
    The last verse criticizes the wealth disparity and inequality. He changed It I guess he felt triumphant when Obama won but 12 years later we are in a worse condition than we were before. Remember never stop protesting!

  • @toms1341
    @toms1341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Always a pleasure to watch, thank you for sharing.

  • @cheeseyvulcan4
    @cheeseyvulcan4 7 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I've watched this multiple times and I just noticed George Lucas in the crowd.

    • @jodybourgeois8813
      @jodybourgeois8813 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah -- and he looks kinda like Steve Bannon!!!

  • @11222stan
    @11222stan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This Land Is Your Land
    Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
    This land is your land This land is my land
    From California to the New York island;
    From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
    This land was made for you and Me.
    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.
    I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
    To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
    And all around me a voice was sounding:
    This land 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,
    As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
    This land was made for you and me.
    As I went walking I saw a sign there
    And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
    But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
    That side was made for you and me.
    In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
    By the relief office I seen my people;
    As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
    Is this land made for you and me?
    Nobody living can ever stop me,
    As I go walking that freedom highway;
    Nobody living can ever make me turn back
    This land was made for you and me.

    • @purpleflametarot39
      @purpleflametarot39 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you!

    • @nicolavivarelli4127
      @nicolavivarelli4127 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks! A wonderful song:from Italy

    • @ericensor6984
      @ericensor6984 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      When I hear the verse
      "As I went walking I saw a sign there
      It said no trespassing
      but on the other side it didn't say nothing
      That side was made for you and me" always makes me think of the fall of the Berlin wall and the road to freedom and a united Germany

    • @marc-andreservant201
      @marc-andreservant201 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      New York is my land
      New York is your land
      From the upstate mountains
      Down to the ocean foam
      With all kinds of people
      Yes, we're polychrome
      New York was made to be frack free

    • @ILikedGooglePlus
      @ILikedGooglePlus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ericensor6984 I mean, it's about how private property steals from the people, but okay

  • @elko04
    @elko04 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This song is literally so beautiful it gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes

  • @marycatherine5439
    @marycatherine5439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you PETE SEEGER for your strength and honor to sing songs dedicated to the Democracy of the United States of America ...this land was made for you and me. May, 2021 would have been Peter Seeger[s 102nd birthday and he will never be forgotten for his faith and humanity in our Democracy in the USA,

    • @jamesanderson8078
      @jamesanderson8078 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes it's beautiful and I agree with your comment,Hello Mary how are you doing 👋👋👋👋

  • @boublijoseph1693
    @boublijoseph1693 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is possibly one of the greatest vidéos ever

  • @lenanebsager8276
    @lenanebsager8276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Here in Denmark some of us enjoyed Pete Seeger back in the sixties. Even my children - 48 and 45 years old listen to his songs from back then.

  • @nataliegold6584
    @nataliegold6584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I like the universal spirit expressed in This Land is Your Land....

  • @McGillicodi
    @McGillicodi 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love it!, very heart lifting,
    Pete and Bruce and the crowd, awesome. Rip Pete

  • @bluchoklut
    @bluchoklut 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The love, joy, excitement, pride, and hope for the future that radiates from this song, particularly in this setting, make me believe unity is possible amongst our diversity.

  • @Giornalisti
    @Giornalisti 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great collection of American Folk Songs. I remember singing them when I was in university back in the 1970s. We need more Weavers, More Woody Guthrie, More Kingston Trio.