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 Shoutout to the more socialist verses of this original song that often get excluded from modern renditions
30 upvotes, 6 comments. Yik Yak image post by fuuuckyikyak in US Politics. "Shoutout to the more socialist verses of this original song that often get excluded from modern renditions"
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US Politics 20h
Remembering the time I got tear gassed at a peaceful protest while singing “this land is your land.” Like we were all sitting on a hill with our signs and singing completely peacefully outside the city hall and we were shot at and gassed for it.
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Anonymous 17h

Also very pro Christian

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17h

How so? Didn’t really get that from my reading of the lyrics

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Anonymous replying to -> fuuuckyikyak 17h

Shadow of the steeple I saw my people

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Anonymous replying to -> fuuuckyikyak 17h

Historically small churches were places for the poor to receive charity

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16h

I don’t interpret that as necessarily pro Christian, I more read it as ‘we have these churches and institutions that are supposed to help people yet people stand in their shadow still hungry’

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Anonymous replying to -> fuuuckyikyak 16h

I mean I’m not a woody Guthrie scholar but that’s my interpretation

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