Fun Music Information -> Woody Guthrie
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Misspellings and other Alternate Names:
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Woody Guthrie (covered by Pete Seeger and others), Woody GurthiePerformer Pseudonyms:
Also known as: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. Submitted by: folk
Strange Offspring Names:
- Arlo Guthrie - Might as well have called him Argo, as in Arrr-go f*** yourself!! Submitted by: American
- Arlo Guthrie - Woody's son also became famous in spite of his name. Submitted by: B
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "This Land Is Your Land" | "This Land Was Our Land" | Patrick McWilliams |
| "This Land is Your Land" | "This Page is My Page" | Dave Schipper |
| "So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya" | "So Short, It's Been Good To Know Ya" | Airfarcewon |
| "This Land is Your Land" | "This Man is Your Man" | Luminous Veil |
| "This Land" | "This Hand" | Dee Range |
| "Deportee" | "Detainee" | Valerie White |
| "This Land Is Your Land" | "Dish Land Is Your Land" | Airfarcewon |
| "This Land Is Your Land" | "This Land Is Bush Land" | Laurie Kittle |
| "This Land Is Your Land" | "This LAN is My LAN" | Rick Duncan |
| "This Land Is Your Land" | "This Slanders Your Land" | Johnny D |
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Misheard Lyrics:
"This Land Is Your Land"
Misheard Lyrics: As I went walking that rhythmic highway
I saw a bug meet that endless skyway I saw balony at Golden Valley This land was made for you and me. Original Lyrics: As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway I saw below me that golden valley This land was made for you and me. | "This Land Is Your Land"
Misheard Lyrics: I saw balogna the golden valley.
Original Lyrics: And saw below me the golden valley.
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"This Land Is Your Land"
Misheard Lyrics: From the redwood forests
To the God Street waters. Original Lyrics: From the redwood forests
To the Gulf Stream waters. | "This Land Is Your Land"
Misheard Lyrics: From the redwood forests, to the God Street waters.
Original Lyrics: From the redwood forests, to the Gulf Stream waters.
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Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"This Land Is Your Land"
Misheard Lyrics: As I went walking that rhythmic highway
I saw a bug meet that endless skyway I saw balony at Golden Valley This land was made for you and me. Original Lyrics: As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway I saw below me that golden valley This land was made for you and me. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Mandy Flowers The misheard lyrics are how I sung it as a kid. Then one day at school, our music teacher asked who knew the second verse after we'd sung the first. I raised my hand and sang the words as above (they are the second verse). Boy did the class get a good laugh at me! |
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Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"This Land Is Your Land"
Opening Lines: This land is your land, this land is my land, From California, to the New York Islands, From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream Waters, This land
Comments: The rest of the opening line: "... was made for you and me." Folk singer and writer, Woody Guthrie, wrote this tune, as a protest tune, during the middle of the Great Depression and how things such as unemployment and the Dust Bowl in the Mid-west had displace. many people. Many artists have covered, "This Land Is Your Land", including (but not excluding), Peter, Paul & Mary.
Submitted by: Peter
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Real Places Mentioned in Songs:
"This Land Is Your Land"
The Lyrics: This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island Why: The songwriter, Woody Guthrie, traveled extensively and lived in California and New York.
Submitted by: Kathy
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Song Title Acrostics:
POP: "Pastures Of Plenty"
Submitted by: Meredith Corpening
Performers with Handicaps:
"Huntington's Disease"
Submitted by: Raphael
