50+ Music<p>"This Land Is Your Land" is a song by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmericanFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanFolk</span></a> singer <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WoodyGuthrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WoodyGuthrie</span></a>. One of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>' most famous <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/folkSongs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folkSongs</span></a>, its lyrics were written in 1940 in critical response to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IrvingBerlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IrvingBerlin</span></a>'s "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GodBlessAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GodBlessAmerica</span></a>". Its <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/melody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>melody</span></a> is based on a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CarterFamily" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarterFamily</span></a> tune called "When the World's on Fire". When Guthrie was tired of hearing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KateSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KateSmith</span></a> sing "God Bless America" on the radio in the late 1930s. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Bo6xFg9x0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=z1Bo6xFg9x0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>