Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land 

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

@@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut he truly is

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He a comminist!

It was written as a anti facist song.

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

@@brianjansen3103p

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

Great! Well done!

Probably banned in Florida today.

@@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.

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

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

@@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.

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

@@LMvdB02 because he was a socalist ape

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

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

As for Bruce, simply nothing and a profound disappointment.

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.

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

@@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".

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

Thank you!

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.

@@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.

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.🏄‍♂️

Kenneth Kearns The song is literally about communism you shill

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

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!

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.

@@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?

@@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

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

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@@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....

@@eva-lenaholmgren6400 MAGA

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

Christopher Fynn dude fr that’s genius

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

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

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

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

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

hahahhahha, u tllem

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!

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

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

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

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.

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."

Old Spanish empire, yes

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!

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

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

+1000

occupy wallstreet won't change the world though

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.

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

Beautiful comment,hello Deborah how are you doing 👋👋👋

Sandra Black 2008-2016

We are still living that same dream. Wether it it be Obama, Or Trump. “Nobody living can ever stop me, as I go walking on freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

what about 2028 or 2027?

@@horationelson1840 the two inaugural songs were very very differently themed.

This has sadly aged too badly...

+Dano Pierce Pete often sang this verse in concert: "This land is your land, but it once was my land,Until we sold you Manhattan Island. You pushed our Nations to the reservations, This land was stole by you from me"

+The Best Purple I have always wanted some new verses that reflect the Red People's perspective. You got me started, thanks! I never feel totally comfortable sing this song anymore as it is. The European Invasion Colonization because of it's core religious belies and twisted skewed world view that was totally Euro-centric and falsely jingoistic actually followed a heretical version of the religion they claimed to follow. It was steeped in an egocentric, euro-centric and arrogance view that their culture and tradition trumped all others. This world view based on Nationalistic and religious\us dogmas was disastrous for the First Nations who were ill prepared to deal with the European Ideas, diseases and weaponry.

Some aspects of communism would have worked had it not been the element of greed and lost for power that drove the elite in the party. It failed miserably and Russia today and North Korea are a testimony to the worst possibilities that can result when bad people take a good idea and before and twist it so they can manipulate and control the masses and resources for egotistical ends. China has somehow started to move forward even though they made the same mistakes and now we are making those mistakes. The foundations our country and it's initial values are good and well intentioned but greedy bad people have taken power and twisted our democracy and the ida of capitalism into an ugly thing. It now works for the politically powerful and those who control business, and the very wealthy who are totally out of touch with common salt of the earth humanity. They do not in my estimation have the general welfare of the nation in mind of on the board room table. Any political system or religions system can become corrupt and evil given the worst of humanity gets a hold of those institutions and uses them for profit, and to control political, economic and religious power over peoiple. . This land is not your land or our land, it's their land and anyone who does not see that is a slave to the propaganda machine that is dumbing down the country, the educational systems and medias. It's about ultimate control. after witnessing the last two administrations and now seeing this one get started I no longer trust the political system or the Business cabals. I just try to live right and treat other decent, honestly and with kindness. I am neither rich nor poor, independent and though deeply thoughtful and spiritual have ceased to affiliate myself with any organized religion. What I see is tragic and we may actually be in the twilight years of our national existence as a democratic republic. The lands and the waters belling to no one, not any one group or creed. They are gifts from the Creator that should be shared and cherished by all. We do not own them, we belong to them and one day our duct will return to Mother earth and our Waters to the Great Waters and then our spirits will have to answer for our words and action in this life. Both the rich and the poor , the great and the small. I thank you for your astute comment.

I agree with you o that point. Communism failed because it has no room for divergent thinkers, therefore were intolerant of a diversion for the purist ideology. Any political system or religion can go that way. In that way all systems that promote a single narrow line of orthodoxy can be come dangerous to it's own people and become top heavy eventually crumpling in on itself through it's own arrogance and lack of vision. Humans tend to be like that. Right now there is a cultural war in our country by two purists factions with many of us independent moderate salt of the earth live and let live people in the middle. Thanks for your feedback. I agree with you about artists that sing about things they have little or no first hand experience with. I had been to Russian in the 1970s. I was with a student group that was planning to protest in Red Square the persecution of Christian Minorities in the USSR. We were arrested and thrown out of the country. You had to see it to believe it and see the impact that Communism had on a nation and people. It was bleak, cold and stark. One could go to parts of the US and see a somewhat similar screen. It's all perspective and location. Seeing the news of the previous weeks one wonders who is telling the truth? Can politicians, corporate cabals or even the median be trusted and can we be assured that the general welfare of the American People is forefront in the motives of these entities. I watch and pray and each day ask that I be a better man today than I was yesterday. Thanks for the feedback! Have a good close to your week. Edited, sorry for the typos!

It'd help your cause if you used the language and grammar correctly. Btw - they didn't name themselves Indians. It's also insanely ignorant to look at the history of humanity and decide that it started for the folks here after 1620 or so. They had history before 1620. As does the world. I find myself at 'interesting' places; I point out to people that the Natives have had it the hardest and worst in the U.S. And get berated by black people who say African-Americans have had it the worst here. Intelligent, educated people. It's important to recognize that the natives here had a long history. Full of violence, no different than any human population. The history of the European 'tribes' who settled here have a LONG history of evil towards one another. Between my Irish, Scottish and English ancestry I can't imagine the possibilities of what they did to each other. Random - I'm up in the Northeast, so I do appreciate the early cooperation between the natives and settlers.

most certainly.

And nobody where I work even knows who he is.

Nancy McClernan Take heart, there are many, many people who are mourning Pete Seeger today with you. In solidarity in San Francisco, MK

Nancy McClernan "nobody where I work even knows who he is." That's what RU-vid is for. It's on us now.

Carry it on, everyone!

Kumbaya, my friend, kumbaya.

I think you misunderstand the song. This song is saying literally that the land and Wealth of America belong to all who live there and for some to take more than others of that great wealth shouldn't be respected Woodys intent is clear with the lines; 'I saw a relief office ect' and 'I saw a great high wall there ect' . Disagree with the premise all you like but this was the intent of the song.

When the Boss says that, you know you did something right.

I adore how happy Pete looks in this recording, but I doubt, he, as a socialist, thought that this was when America had made it. He knew there was much work to be done, that a government like Obama’s was never going to be the end of America’s troubles, not by a long shot. But he had gone through a long career, having once been framed as a criminal for protesting segregation, to now performing at the imagination of a black man as the president of the United States. Yes, the road ahead was long and yes, there were perhaps centuries of struggle to come until America was truly the land of liberty and justice for all, but goddammit, we were making progress, and sometimes, that progress, just that continuing desire to make our land better, was enough. And so, in singing this song, adding back in all of those crucial verses that could have gotten him and Woody thrown in jail all those years ago, seeing the public embrace these words, that America, and all of the Earth, can be a place that we can all truly share, where we can all truly be equal, and truly be happy, Pete Seeger was truly happy as well.

Hi James, it's a great song. But it was composed by Woody Guthrie, another great songwriter, like Pete Seeger. Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 👍🏻

Indeed!

Yes it's his for sure,Hello heliana how are you doing 👋👋👋👋

@@jamesanderson8078 Hello, James. I am fine. And you. Thanks.🌼🌼😘😘

Pete Seeger was a communist 😂