Here’s something I learned while reading an article about Bruce Springsteen in The New Yorker magazine’s July 30, 2012 issue:
There are two “radical” verses in Woody Guthrie’s “American anthem,” This Land Is Your Land.” But we don’t hear these verses much:
“There was a great high wall there / that tried to stop me; / A great big sign there / Said private property; / But on the other side / It didn’t say nothing; / That side was made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie sang a lot about the rights of all Americans, an equitable society.
