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On 12 Sep 2006 20:04:13 -0700, "Blinky the Wonder Wombat"
<wkharrisjr_info@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Antonio E. Gonzalez wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:00:53 -0500, Mike Beede <beede@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >In article <M9yNg.190$1f1.1753@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> > Rob Wynne <doc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >You might prefer "This Land is Your Land," then. I actually like
>> >it better myself, in spite of the fact that Irving Berlin rocks.
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>> In fact, the whole reason Woody Guthrie wrote it was to give
>> people a secular alternative for patriotic music
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>Though I doubt the last verse would pass political muster as a
>"patriotic" song:
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> 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.
>
>Funny how we never got to sing that verse at the school assemblies...
Hey, just 'cause some school administrators were too cowardly . .
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