This land is your land –
Yours, Blacks, Asians, Latinos, people of multiple race,
Christians, Jews, Muslims and those of other faiths and
no faith in particular and those who have the faith of atheism
This land is my land –
Yes, mine, too, a white, straight, male senior citizen
of Dutch and Swedish ancestry
From California, to the New York Island
From the poorest of the poor to the richest
of the rich and to those committed to lifting the poor
and limiting the power of the rich.
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters —
To being a nation dedicated to protecting those forests
and the salt and fresh waters
This land was made for you and me.
The gifted, the challenged, the exceptional, the
ordinary, those well equipped to succeed because
they received helping hands
and those who still need a helping hand and
should get it simply because of the
Constitutional contract with America.
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway —
And dedicate ourselves to polluting less,
recycling more, jogging, bicycling, exercising
to help keep that skyway endless.
I saw below me a golden valley —
And a pledge to support sustainable farming.
This land was made for you and me.
I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me.
Yes, this land was made for you and me, for
males and females, young and old, gays, lesbians,
bisexuals and transgender, for all who walk
from the sea sand to desert sands,
this land does belong to you and me
and for all who have immigrated through the desert
and across boarders seeking a better way of life, may
this land soon be for thee.
The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me.
Let us keep our grain free of toxins and
poisons and pledge to keep droughts
from increasing and heat waves from raging
and storms from destroying because
this land was made for you and me.
As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no tress passin’
But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
And may that side always be there for you and me.
In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office – I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me.
The Second Inauguration of Barack H. Obama
Was filled with Red and Yellow, Black and
White, all who are precious in God’s sight and
it gives us hope that while we continue to
grumble and mumble on behalf of peace,
justice, mercy and we comfort the afflicted
and afflict the comfortable, may we rejoice
in affirming that this land was made for
you and me and the uppercase WE.