Common Folk Collective » power to the people http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Today I Learned – This Land is Your Land http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/11/today-i-learned-this-land-is-your-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=today-i-learned-this-land-is-your-land http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/11/today-i-learned-this-land-is-your-land/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:51:23 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=4997 While reading a post on a BBC blog I learned the following:

Tired of listening to “God Bless America” (which he thought unrealistic and complacent apparently), Woody Guthrie wrote and published “This Land is Your Land” in 1945.

I hate the fact they play “God Bless America” during baseball games and I like Woody Guthrie even more now that I know that he didn’t like “God Bless America.” Read a lot of details about “This Land is Your Land” on Wikipedia.

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