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"This Land Is Your Land" Like Woody Wrote It

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Pete Seeger, who actually hoboed with Woody during the Depression and Dust Bowl, and "The Boss" had the crowd sing the song as it was actually written, as not only a celebration of this great land, but as a demand for workers' and people's rights. That is, they restored the verses that have been censored from the song over the years to make it less political: "There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me..."
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OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.

Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.

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