Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based folksinger and journalist. His latest book is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now available in paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
digg_url = 'http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/39146'; digg_title = "This Land Really IS Made for You and Me!"; digg_bodytext = "By Dave Lindorff\r\n\r\nMaybe symbolism is just symbolism, but the optimist in me says that Barack Obama\'s invitation to former Communist and life-long political activist Pete Seeger (along with Bruce Springstein and 89-year-old Pete\'s full-throated grandson Tao) to sing Woody Guthrie\'s anthem This Land is Your Land, and the fact that the once blacklisted folk legend chose to do not just the feel-good, approved-for-public-school-music-class-use verses, but all the verses, including Woody\'s long-censored \"commie\" verses, and that Obama was right there singing those verses along with the rest of the million people on the Mall, has to mean something.\r\n\r"; digg_skin = 'standard';(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
