This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie

All you mothers and you brothers and you sisters and you fathers And everybody walkin' this land No matter your race, your creed, your tribe Whose nation you defend With open hearts, open minds, lend a helpin' hand each time To the mothers and the brothers and the sisters and the fathers Everybody walkin' this land All you believers, pretenders, bonafide sinners Everybody walkin' this land No matter your church, your faith, your sign Whose lying in your den All seeing eyes and Jesus Christ We're all living in a paradise With believers, pretenders, bonafide sinners Everybody walkin' this land Lord we pray we make it through the day All you mothers, you brothers, you sisters, you fathers Believers, pretenders, bonafide sinners Everybody walkin' this land All you racists, fascists, nihilists, and bigots I'm calling you out my friend I felt your hurt, drank your fear Your actions will not stand Get on your knees, begin to pray Look at me, you can change You racists, fascists, nihilists, and bigots I'm calling you out my friend Lord, we pray we make it through the day You racists, fascists, nihilists, and bigots We're prayin' for you my friend All you prophets, saints, angels, and ladies And all you gentlemen We walked on fire, and we fought through Hell We're soldiers 'til the end If you can't get enough Don't think that devil won't fill your cup You mothers, you brothers, you sisters, you fathers You believers, pretenders, bonafide sinners Racists, fascists, nihilists, and bigots Prophets, saints, and angels, and ladies All you gentlemen Everybody walkin' this land

Head down as I punch this clock The hours roll, they never stop And I can't ever seem to get ahead Always tryin' to do what's right Straight and narrow, it's gettin' tight Don't know how much longer I can stand And I'm wonderin' Yeah, I'm wonderin' Where's my promised land? Out here on this desert road It's hot as fire but I've grown cold Circlin' like a plane that never lands And even though the questions change The answers always stay the same Maybe someday I will understand So I'm wonderin' Got me wonderin' Whеre's my promised land? Yeah, I'm wondеrin' Still, I'm wonderin' Where's my promised land? Well, I've run this earth for many years If there's one thing I know There's nowhere on this side o' Heaven Where streets are made o' gold I've long laid tell my grand illusions Lookin' toward the day that I'll be home I won't give up on this race Broken but I still have faith That this old life is all part of a plan And I can feel it in my soul One day I'll stand before the Throne With nothin' left but hope and these two hands Through all these seasons I'm still believin' You're my promised land In all my grievin' I'm still believin' You're my promised land You're my promised land, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh My promised land, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh Ah-ah, (ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh) Oh-oh, oh-oh (ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh) You're my promised land

There's a land that I have heard about So far across the sea There's a land that I have heard about So far across the sea To have you all, my dreamland Would be like heaven to me To have you all, my dreamland Would be like heaven to me We'll get our breakfast from the tree We'll get our honey from the bees We'll take a ride on the waterfalls And all the glories, we'll have them all And we'll live together on that dreamland And have so much fun We'll live together on that dreamland And have so much fun Oh, what a time that will be Oh yes, we'll wait, wait, wait and see We'll count the stars up in the sky And surely, we'll never die And surely, we'll never die

And I say Dread and Terrible pon dem Good god of grace, well I have his mercy And me say old slave driver Time is catching up on you Old slave driver I know your sins dem a haunt you Carry we go home, Carry we go home And bring we gone a east Cause man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Carry we go home A me settle and seize Caw man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Lord America a capture land Di whole a Jamaica a capture land A long time dem wah trick the rasta man Like dem nuh know man a real African Yuh tink me nuh memba King Ferdinand And teifing Columbus have a Golden plan Dem make a wrong turn and end up in the Caribbean One rass genocide kill nuff indian Fi turn paradise in a plantation And bring cross one ship load a African No hear comes the teifing Queen from England No she Carmwell and envy mother Century pon top a century full a sufferation And after four hundred year mi say no referation And now dem wah fi kill we wid taxation But a beg you please take me to the mother land Carry we go home, Carry we go home And bring we gone a east Cause man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Carry we go home A me settle and seize Caw man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Watch dem pon top a di hill A look inna dem plate how it proper and it fill Because down town have shocka fi kill Dem tell the tourist say fi stop a Negril So come mek we start a new chapter We nah stay pon di land weh dem capture A me say Africa fi all true rasta A say go tell di unscrupulous factors say Carry we go home, Carry we go home And bring we gone a east Cause man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Carry we go home A me settle and seize Caw man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Cherry Garden a capture land Me tell you Shortwood a capture land Los angeles dat a capture land And new york city dat a capture land Ease some a di place weh you wah go live sweet A teifing land there's no title fi it And some a these place weh you wah go live nice A tief dem tief it in the name of christ Spanish Town dat a capture land The whole a Kingston dat a capture land Remember Portland dat a capture land And all down a Trinidad dat a Capture land Barbados dat a capture land Tell dem Bermuda dat a Capture land And tell Columbia dat a Capture land All round a Cuba dat a Capture land

متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف وتفوت أيام وتمر سنين وانا حالي غريب انا مين انا مين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين على غفلة اتحول بركان جبار انا ضلمة وليل أنا نار ونهار متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف ماشي على طريق مكتوب مرسوم بس انا مسؤول وعليا اللوم ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول قدامي طريق همشيه همشيه نفهم في الآخر كل ده لية متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف

فوسط زحمة وناس كتير وطريق أنا ماشي فيه عكس السير وسط الطموح والأمل والتمني فاضلي خطوة توصلني فوسط حاجات ومكيفات بحاول أنسى كل اللي فات في وسط صدري ضلعي مكسور ومن خلاله قلبي شايف نور أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع فوسط الليل وأنا بعيد عن البشر شفت نور يشبه نور القمر بس القمر مسيره يفارق ويسيبني تاني مع الوحدة أحارب فوسط قصة حب يعني وهمية كان لازم أصدق اصل الوحدة قوية مش كل المشاعر حقيقية أنا شفت نور معرفتش اغمض عنيا أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع

You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset She's going off about something that you said 'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do I'm in my room, it's a typical Tuesday night I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like And she'll never know your story like I do 'Cause she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and find That what you're looking for has been here the whole time If you could see that I'm the one who understands you Been here all along, so why can't you see? You belong with me, you belong with me Walk in the streets with you in your worn-out jeans I can't help thinking this is how it ought to be Laughing on a park bench thinking to myself "Hey, isn't this easy?" And you've got a smile that can light up this whole town I haven't seen it in a while since she brought you down You say, "You're fine", I know you better than that Hey, what you doing with a girl like that? She wears high heels, I wear sneakers She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and find That what you're looking for has been here the whole time If you could see that I'm the one who understands you Been here all along, so why can't you see? You belong with me Standing by and waiting at your back door All this time, how could you not know, baby? You belong with me, you belong with me Oh, I remember you driving to my house In the middle of the night I'm the one who makes you laugh When you know you're 'bout to cry I know your favorite songs And you tell me 'bout your dreams Think I know where you belong Think I know it's with me Can't you see that I'm the one who understands you? Been here all along, so why can't you see? You belong with me Standing by and waiting at your back door All this time, how could you not know, baby? You belong with me, you belong with me You belong with me Have you ever thought just maybe, you belong with me? You belong with me