This Land's Not Your Land

With apologies -- & great respect -- to Woody Guthrie

This land’s not your land

This land’s not my land

It is a whole land

A quite unknown land

But if we listen

It’s still a-glistenin’

And speaking aloud to you and me

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It’s not the CEO’s

The corportate boardroom’s

It’s not the frackers’

Dark money backers

It is a seed song

And not a greed song

That’s speaking aloud to you and me

Chorus

It’s in the wetlands

Our desert sweat glands

It’s in the frog calls

‘cross springtime marsh bogs

The flooded wild rice

Below the pipelines

That’s speaking aloud to you and me

Chorus

So come a walkin’

And let’s start talkin’

Lay down our egos

And feel the roots grow

New soils and forests

Provide the chorus

That’s speaking aloud to you and me