When Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" on this day 80 years ago, he didn't intend for the song to be a ringing endorsement of American exceptionalism.
Woody wrote it for those who were getting left behind. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was one of the most significant figures in American western folk music. His songs including "This Land Is Your Land" inspired several #USA generations politically and musically. Near the end of his life, Woody was committed to a New Jersey mental institution. Bob Dylan would visit from NYC. Info@Woodyguthrie.org
A video @MikeBloomberg could produce is about Trump who was so racist that Woody Guthrie wrote a song about It. I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
Guthrie’s lyrics reportedly went as follows:
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project
https://youtu.be/8Z6OEqc0uS0 https://link.medium.com/KKH3IAwXw2