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THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND words and music by Woody Guthrie G C G This land is your land, this land is my land G D D7 G From California to the New York Island G C G From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters G D D7 G This land was made for you and me. G C G As I went walking that ribbon of highway G D D7 G I saw above me that endless skyway G C G I saw below me that golden valley G D D7 G This land was made for you and me. G C G I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps G D D7 G To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts G C G While all around me a voice was sounding G D D7 G This land was made for you and me. G C G When the sun came shining, and I was strolling G D D7 G And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling G C G A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting, G D D7 G This land was made for you and me. G C G This land is your land, this land is my land G D D7 G From California to the New York Island G C G From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters G D D7 G This land was made for you and me. G C G There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me; G D D7 G Sign was painted, it said private property; G C G But on the back side it didn't say nothing; G D D7 G This land was made for you and me. G C G As I went walking I saw a sign there G D D7 G And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." G C G But on the other side it didn't say nothing, G D D7 G That side was made for you and me. G C G Nobody living can ever stop me, G D D7 G As I go walking that freedom highway G C G Nobody living can ever make me turn back G D D7 G This land was made for you and me. G C G In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple; G D D7 G By the relief office, I'd seen my people. G C G As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking, G D D7 G Is this land made for you and me? |
JOHNNY IS GONE FOR A SOLDIER traditional VERSE Em B7 C G I trace these gardens o'er and o'er G C D7 G Meditate on each sweet flow'r Em B7 Em B7 Thinking of each happy hour, Em B7 Em Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. Chorus: Em B7 C G Shool-a Shool-a Shule agrah, G C D7 G Time can only heal my woe, Em B7 Em B7 Since the lad of my heart from me did go, Em B7 Em Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. Em B7 C G Some say my love is gone to France G C D7 G There his fortune to advance, Em B7 Em B7 And if I find him it's but a chance, Em B7 Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. (Chorus) VERSE Em B7 C G I'll sell my frock, I'll sell my wheel, G C D7 G I'll buy my love a sword of steel, Em B7 Em B7 So in the battle he may reel, Em B7 E Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. (Chorus) VERSE Em B7 C G I wish I was on yonder hill, G C D7 G It's there I'd sit and cry my fill, Em B7 Em B7 So ev'ry tear might turn a mill, Em B7 E Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. (Chorus) VERSE Em B7 C G I'll dye my dress all over red, G C D7 G And o'er the world I'll beg my bread, Em B7 Em B7 So all my friends may think me dead, Em B7 E Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. |
ROLL AND TUMBLE traditional C G Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cry the whole night long C G Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cry the whole night long D C G Well, I woke up this mornin', didn't know right from wrong C G Well, I told my baby, before I left that town C G Well, I told my baby, before I left that town D C G Well, don't you let nobody, tear my barrel house down C G Well, if the river was whiskey, and I was a divin' duck C G Well, if the river was whiskey, and I was a divin' duck D C G Well, I would dive to the bottom, never would I come up C G Well, I could a had a religion, this bad old thing instead C G Well, I could a had a religion, this bad old thing instead D C G Well, all whiskey and women, would not let me pray |