Sabbia.org » woody guthrie http://www.sabbia.org/blog Breviario di resistenza umana Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:29:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Is this land made for you and me? http://www.sabbia.org/blog/2009/01/19/is-this-land-made-for-you-and-me/ http://www.sabbia.org/blog/2009/01/19/is-this-land-made-for-you-and-me/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:09:48 +0000 nico http://www.sabbia.org/blog/?p=1010 Non avrei mai pensato di veder cantata da Pete Seeger, di fronte a 400.000 persone, alla presenza del futuro Presidente USA, La canzone di Woody Guthrie.
Va bene che entrambi sono stati recentemente “sdoganati” da Bruce Springsteen, ma un comunista che canta la canzone di un socialista di fronte ad un Presidente nero dal palco che vide declamato il famoso discorso del “sogno” di Martin Luther King, ha qualcosa di realmente rivoluzionario.

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
Sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn’t say nothing;
That side was made for you and me.
Is this land made for you and me?
In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I’d seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?
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