This Land Is Your Land
Woody Guthrie wrote the song in 1940 in response to Irving Berlin’s ‘God Bless America’ Guthrie’s melody was very similar to the melody of ‘Oh, My Loving Brother’, a Baptist gospel hymn that had been recorded by the Carter Family as ‘When the World’s On Fire’ The original title was ‘God Blessed America’, but it was struck out and replaced...
