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2. Not blatantly censored

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 01:57 PM

19 hrs ago

As I remember.

Mainstream performance artists just left that verse out.

My memory might be playing tricks on me, as is prone to happen.

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The censored lyric of "This Land Is Your Land" [View all] orangecrush 19 hrs ago OP

Woody Guthrie wrote that song in the 1940s. MineralMan 19 hrs ago #1

Not blatantly censored orangecrush 19 hrs ago #2

It has had many different verses. MineralMan 19 hrs ago #3

It's the spirit of the thing orangecrush 18 hrs ago #4

Largely, it was "censored" to fit the song on a 45 rpm record disk... Wounded Bear 18 hrs ago #5

That, too. MineralMan 18 hrs ago #6

Thanks for the great post, MM orangecrush 17 hrs ago #8

"it was a beautiful song, but it ran too long" orangecrush 17 hrs ago #7

Not discouraged but definitely sad. efhmc 13 hrs ago #9