This Land is Your Land

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This Land Is Your Land est l'une des plus célèbre chansons folkloriques des États-Unis . Les paroles a été écrit près Woody Guthrie en 1940 sur une musique existante. Woody Guthrie a écrit cette chanson en réponse à "God Bless America" de Irving Berlin qu'il considérait comme peu réaliste et suffisante. Lassé d'entendre Kate Smith chanter cette chanson, il a écrit une réponse "God Blessed America for Me".[1]; Guthrie a changé les paroles au cours des interpretations , ajoutant parfois comprenant des vers plus politiques .

Guthrie a tiré la mélodie de "This Land Is Your Land" essentiellement de "When the World's on Fire," un chant baptiste enregistré par la Carter Family dix années plus tôt. Cependant, certaines sources pensent qu'une chanson original de la Carter Family , "Little Darlin' Pal of Mine," est la source de mélodie de "This Land".[2]

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[modifier] Paroles Originales (1944)

This land is your land, 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
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.
I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
While All around me a voice was sounding
Saying this land was made for you and me.
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.
This land is your land, 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.

[modifier] Notes et références

  1. ↑ Woody Guthrie: this man is your myth, this man is my myth
  2. ↑ Cray, Ed (2004). Ramblin Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie. W. W. Norton & Company, 165. ISBN 0393327361. 

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[modifier] Bibliographie

  • Ramblin Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie. W. W. Norton & Company, 165. ISBN 0393327361.