This Land is Your Land
Created | Updated Jun 3, 2006
This Land is Your Land is a folk song written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie as an antidote to Irving Berlin’s God Bless America. See the Wikipedia articles for more detail.
My little brother, see Big Brothers Big Sisters for more information, played this for me on my tinwhistle. It seemed a fit toot for the catalogue.
Other tunes in this series can be found listed on the Toots of the Whistle page of the Guide.
This abc-rendition is transposed for the pennywhistle, tuned to the key of D. Copy and paste the abc-code, shown below, into your own text file and then process the file using the abc-tool of your choice. Free abc utilities are available that will convert the code to a MIDI file, to Adobe PostScript, and to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) suitable for printing the sheet music. As an alternative, it is possible to read the abc-code direct and play it on your favourite instrument.
X:12259839
T:This Land is Your Land
T:--h2g2 article A12259839--
C:Woody Guthrie 1912-1967
S:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html
S:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Is_Your_Land
S:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
N:pennywhistle, tinwhistle, tin, penny, whistle
N:flageolet, fipple, flute, feadog
N:Composed 1940
Z:Transposed 20060603 by H2G2 U107221 for the pennywhistle keyed in D.
F:This-Land-H2G2-A
L:1/8
M:4/4
Q:1/4=100
K:G
"^Pennywhistle in D"
GA B| c2 c3 cG A| B2 B3 GG B|
w:This land is your land, This land is my land, from Cal-i-
w:As I was walk-ing that ribbon of high-way, I saw a-
A2 A3 A/2A/2 GA | B2 B3 G/2G/2 AB |
w:forn-ia to the New York Is-land; From the Red-wood
w:bove me * that end-less sky-way; I saw be-low
c2 c3 A/2A/2 GA | B2 B3 A A2 | A G FE F G-G2 | z4 |]
w:For-est to the Gulf Stream wa-ter; This land was made for you and m-e.
w:me that * * gold-en val-ley; This land was made for you and m-e.
