THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND - ALL VERSES

Some folks believe that Lady Gaga's Super Bowl half-time show included a veiled political statement in her singing a bit of Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land.  I did not quite follow that, thinking like most people, that it is a feel-good, kumbya camp fire song.  Then I read more about the two missing verses that are nearly always left out of recordings, and of Guthrie's penning the song in a fierce rebuttal to the anthem of his day, America the Beautiful.  Here are all six verses, and you can likely figure out which two are usually deleted:

1940 Lyrics with Edits

This land is your land, this land is my land

From the California to the Staten New York Island,

From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters,

God blessed America for me.

[This land was made for you and me.]

As I went walking that ribbon of highway

And saw above me that endless skyway,

And saw below me the golden valley, I said:

God blessed America for me.

[This land was made for you and me.]

I roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts,

And all around me, a voice was sounding:

God blessed America for me.

[This land was made for you and me.]

Was a high wall there that tried to stop me

A sign was painted said: Private Property,

But on the back side it didn't say nothing —

God blessed America for me.

[This land was made for you and me.]

When the sun come shining, then I was strolling

In wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling;

The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting:

God blessed America for me.

[This land was made for you and me.]

One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple

By the Relief Office I saw my people —

As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if

God blessed America for me.

[This land was made for you and me.]