Chords for Arlo Guthrie This Land is Your Land Oct 2 2017 Chicago nunupics
Tempo:
97.45 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
D
Bb
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Here comes Lady Gaga.
[Bb] And I wasn't really paying attention, but you know, she started singing one of my dad's songs and it was like, what?
[D] [N] I called my sister, I said, turn on the TV.
[Abm] By the time she did, it was [N] over.
Lady Gaga didn't do the whole song, just a couple of lines from it, but still, I thought it was just so cool.
I mean, totally out of the blue, unexpected.
[Bb] And for days we were having fun thinking about it, but then a couple of [C] days after [Bm] that, there was a newspaper article [Bb] making the rounds across the country.
They would change the headline or something, but basically the [N] idea was, Lady Gaga introduces a subversive material on TV.
And I sat there looking [B] at that, reading that thing.
I said, you know [Gb] what?
If the idea [Bm] that this land is made for you and me and everything like that becomes subversive, [D] we're fucked.
[N]
There's just no right way to say it.
Having said [G] that,
As [C] I went walking that [G] ribbon of highway, I saw [D] above me an [G] endless skyway.
I saw [C] below me [G] a golden valley.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [Gb] this land [G] is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
[C] That voice is my cue.
[G] Sorry, I missed it.
I was thinking about other [D] things.
[G] I have to wait for it to come around.
Oh, now we're going.
I've [C] run and rambled.
I've [G] followed my footsteps through the [D] sparks and sands of her [G] town desert.
And [C] going round me, a [G] voice was sounding.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [G] this land is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
[D] This land was made for [G] you and me.
That's funny, certainly.
What were you thinking?
I was just wondering if my guitar, my middle was in tune.
[N] That's what you found it.
I didn't do it at all.
You're not alone, though.
I went through something like this one time.
I remember that it was in the fifth grade.
And I just had a realization one day that homework was wrong.
It was just a morally bankrupt concept.
[Bb] Regular people that worked for a living were not expected to continue [N] working when they got home.
Why would it be different from little kids?
I mean, [C] where was those youth guys my dad had been singing [Ab] for for decades?
[C] I just quit doing it anyhow.
We didn't have [Bb] a name for it back then, but it [B] came to be called [N] civil disobedience.
And my mom didn't know what to make of it.
She took me out of the regular school I was in, put me in one of these progressive schools so that I would presumably progress.
I walked in the first day of that new school.
The kids were standing [Bm] up at the assembly in that morning.
They were singing, [B] this land is your [Bb] land.
I was the only one there who didn't know the words.
[N]
Nobody told me that stuff was famous outside of our house.
When you're a kid, you don't think of stuff like that.
[C] So I ran home with [Bb] tears in my eyes and told my father what had happened.
And he made me bring him this little [Abm] [Bb] guitar that he'd given me on my fifth birthday, which I still have.
[G] And he showed me the chords out there in the backyard.
And when I had that much done, he taught me the verses everybody was singing.
There was three of them, and I learned them.
And when I had that much done, he sang me some verses nobody had ever heard before.
And I learned them too.
And I was singing them for years and decades back in the days when nobody had heard them before.
Although anybody can find them now, so I don't sing the whole thing.
But I will leave you tonight with the last verse I ever heard my father sing for me.
It goes something like this.
Nobody [C] living can [G] ever stop me.
As I [D] go walking my freedom [G] highway.
[C] Nobody living [G] can make me turn back.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land [G] and it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [Gb] to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your [Am] land [D] and [G] it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood [Am] Forest to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[Em] [D] This land was made for [G] you and [C] me.
[G] Thank you [A] very much.
Have a good night.
[Bb] And I wasn't really paying attention, but you know, she started singing one of my dad's songs and it was like, what?
[D] [N] I called my sister, I said, turn on the TV.
[Abm] By the time she did, it was [N] over.
Lady Gaga didn't do the whole song, just a couple of lines from it, but still, I thought it was just so cool.
I mean, totally out of the blue, unexpected.
[Bb] And for days we were having fun thinking about it, but then a couple of [C] days after [Bm] that, there was a newspaper article [Bb] making the rounds across the country.
They would change the headline or something, but basically the [N] idea was, Lady Gaga introduces a subversive material on TV.
And I sat there looking [B] at that, reading that thing.
I said, you know [Gb] what?
If the idea [Bm] that this land is made for you and me and everything like that becomes subversive, [D] we're fucked.
[N]
There's just no right way to say it.
Having said [G] that,
As [C] I went walking that [G] ribbon of highway, I saw [D] above me an [G] endless skyway.
I saw [C] below me [G] a golden valley.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [Gb] this land [G] is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
[C] That voice is my cue.
[G] Sorry, I missed it.
I was thinking about other [D] things.
[G] I have to wait for it to come around.
Oh, now we're going.
I've [C] run and rambled.
I've [G] followed my footsteps through the [D] sparks and sands of her [G] town desert.
And [C] going round me, a [G] voice was sounding.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [G] this land is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
[D] This land was made for [G] you and me.
That's funny, certainly.
What were you thinking?
I was just wondering if my guitar, my middle was in tune.
[N] That's what you found it.
I didn't do it at all.
You're not alone, though.
I went through something like this one time.
I remember that it was in the fifth grade.
And I just had a realization one day that homework was wrong.
It was just a morally bankrupt concept.
[Bb] Regular people that worked for a living were not expected to continue [N] working when they got home.
Why would it be different from little kids?
I mean, [C] where was those youth guys my dad had been singing [Ab] for for decades?
[C] I just quit doing it anyhow.
We didn't have [Bb] a name for it back then, but it [B] came to be called [N] civil disobedience.
And my mom didn't know what to make of it.
She took me out of the regular school I was in, put me in one of these progressive schools so that I would presumably progress.
I walked in the first day of that new school.
The kids were standing [Bm] up at the assembly in that morning.
They were singing, [B] this land is your [Bb] land.
I was the only one there who didn't know the words.
[N]
Nobody told me that stuff was famous outside of our house.
When you're a kid, you don't think of stuff like that.
[C] So I ran home with [Bb] tears in my eyes and told my father what had happened.
And he made me bring him this little [Abm] [Bb] guitar that he'd given me on my fifth birthday, which I still have.
[G] And he showed me the chords out there in the backyard.
And when I had that much done, he taught me the verses everybody was singing.
There was three of them, and I learned them.
And when I had that much done, he sang me some verses nobody had ever heard before.
And I learned them too.
And I was singing them for years and decades back in the days when nobody had heard them before.
Although anybody can find them now, so I don't sing the whole thing.
But I will leave you tonight with the last verse I ever heard my father sing for me.
It goes something like this.
Nobody [C] living can [G] ever stop me.
As I [D] go walking my freedom [G] highway.
[C] Nobody living [G] can make me turn back.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land [G] and it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [Gb] to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your [Am] land [D] and [G] it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood [Am] Forest to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[Em] [D] This land was made for [G] you and [C] me.
[G] Thank you [A] very much.
Have a good night.
Key:
G
C
D
Bb
Bm
G
C
D
Here comes Lady Gaga. _ _ _ _
[Bb] And I wasn't really paying attention, but you know, she started singing one of my dad's songs and it was like, what?
_ [D] [N] I called my sister, I said, turn on the TV.
[Abm] By the time she did, it was [N] over.
Lady Gaga didn't do the whole song, just a couple of lines from it, but still, I thought it was just so cool.
I mean, totally out of the blue, unexpected.
[Bb] And for days we were having fun thinking about it, but then a couple of [C] days after [Bm] that, there was a newspaper article [Bb] making the rounds across the country.
They would change the headline or something, but basically the [N] idea was, Lady Gaga introduces a subversive material on TV.
_ _ And I sat there looking [B] at that, reading that thing.
I said, you know [Gb] what?
If the idea [Bm] that this land is made for you and me and everything like that becomes subversive, [D] we're fucked.
[N] _ _
There's just no right way to say it. _ _ _
Having said [G] that,
_ _ _ _ As [C] I went walking that [G] ribbon of highway, I saw [D] above me an [G] endless skyway.
I saw [C] below me [G] a golden valley.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [Gb] this land [G] is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
_ _ [C] _ That voice is my cue.
[G] Sorry, I missed it.
I was thinking about other [D] things.
_ _ [G] I have to wait for it to come around.
Oh, _ _ now we're going.
I've [C] run and rambled.
I've [G] followed my footsteps through the [D] sparks and sands of her [G] town desert.
And [C] going round me, a [G] voice was sounding.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [G] this land is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
_ _ [D] This land was made for [G] you and me.
That's funny, certainly.
_ What were you thinking?
I was just wondering if my guitar, my middle was in tune. _
[N] That's what you found it.
I didn't do it at all.
You're not alone, though.
I went through something like this one time.
I remember that it was in the fifth grade. _
_ _ And I just had a realization one day that homework was wrong.
_ It was just a morally bankrupt concept. _
[Bb] Regular people that worked for a living were not expected to continue [N] working when they got home.
Why would it be different from little kids? _
I mean, [C] where was those youth guys my dad had been singing [Ab] for for decades? _
[C] I just quit doing it anyhow.
We didn't have [Bb] a name for it back then, but it [B] came to be called [N] civil disobedience. _ _
And my mom didn't know what to make of it.
She took me out of the regular school I was in, put me in one of these progressive schools so that I would presumably progress.
_ I walked in the first day of that new school.
The kids were standing [Bm] up at the assembly in that morning.
They were singing, [B] this land is your [Bb] land.
I was the only one there who didn't know the words.
[N] _ _ _
Nobody told me that stuff was famous outside of our house.
When you're a kid, you don't think of stuff like that.
[C] So I ran home with [Bb] tears in my eyes and told my father what had happened.
And he made me bring him this little [Abm] [Bb] guitar that he'd given me on my fifth birthday, which I still have.
[G] And he showed me the chords out there in the backyard.
_ _ And when I had that much done, he taught me the verses everybody was singing.
There was three of them, and I learned them. _
And when I had that much done, he sang me some verses nobody had ever heard before.
And I learned them too.
And I was singing them for years and decades back in the days when nobody had heard them before.
Although anybody can find them now, so I don't sing the whole thing.
But I will leave you tonight with the last verse I ever heard my father sing for me.
It goes something like this. _
Nobody [C] living can [G] ever stop me.
As I [D] go walking my freedom [G] highway.
_ _ [C] Nobody living [G] can make me turn back.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land [G] and it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [Gb] to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your [Am] land [D] and [G] it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood [Am] Forest to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[Em] _ [D] This land was made for [G] you and [C] me.
_ [G] _ Thank you [A] very much.
Have a good night. _
[Bb] And I wasn't really paying attention, but you know, she started singing one of my dad's songs and it was like, what?
_ [D] [N] I called my sister, I said, turn on the TV.
[Abm] By the time she did, it was [N] over.
Lady Gaga didn't do the whole song, just a couple of lines from it, but still, I thought it was just so cool.
I mean, totally out of the blue, unexpected.
[Bb] And for days we were having fun thinking about it, but then a couple of [C] days after [Bm] that, there was a newspaper article [Bb] making the rounds across the country.
They would change the headline or something, but basically the [N] idea was, Lady Gaga introduces a subversive material on TV.
_ _ And I sat there looking [B] at that, reading that thing.
I said, you know [Gb] what?
If the idea [Bm] that this land is made for you and me and everything like that becomes subversive, [D] we're fucked.
[N] _ _
There's just no right way to say it. _ _ _
Having said [G] that,
_ _ _ _ As [C] I went walking that [G] ribbon of highway, I saw [D] above me an [G] endless skyway.
I saw [C] below me [G] a golden valley.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [Gb] this land [G] is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
_ _ [C] _ That voice is my cue.
[G] Sorry, I missed it.
I was thinking about other [D] things.
_ _ [G] I have to wait for it to come around.
Oh, _ _ now we're going.
I've [C] run and rambled.
I've [G] followed my footsteps through the [D] sparks and sands of her [G] town desert.
And [C] going round me, a [G] voice was sounding.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land, and [G] this land is my land.
From [D] California to the New [G] York Highlands.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [G] to the Gulf Stream waters.
_ _ [D] This land was made for [G] you and me.
That's funny, certainly.
_ What were you thinking?
I was just wondering if my guitar, my middle was in tune. _
[N] That's what you found it.
I didn't do it at all.
You're not alone, though.
I went through something like this one time.
I remember that it was in the fifth grade. _
_ _ And I just had a realization one day that homework was wrong.
_ It was just a morally bankrupt concept. _
[Bb] Regular people that worked for a living were not expected to continue [N] working when they got home.
Why would it be different from little kids? _
I mean, [C] where was those youth guys my dad had been singing [Ab] for for decades? _
[C] I just quit doing it anyhow.
We didn't have [Bb] a name for it back then, but it [B] came to be called [N] civil disobedience. _ _
And my mom didn't know what to make of it.
She took me out of the regular school I was in, put me in one of these progressive schools so that I would presumably progress.
_ I walked in the first day of that new school.
The kids were standing [Bm] up at the assembly in that morning.
They were singing, [B] this land is your [Bb] land.
I was the only one there who didn't know the words.
[N] _ _ _
Nobody told me that stuff was famous outside of our house.
When you're a kid, you don't think of stuff like that.
[C] So I ran home with [Bb] tears in my eyes and told my father what had happened.
And he made me bring him this little [Abm] [Bb] guitar that he'd given me on my fifth birthday, which I still have.
[G] And he showed me the chords out there in the backyard.
_ _ And when I had that much done, he taught me the verses everybody was singing.
There was three of them, and I learned them. _
And when I had that much done, he sang me some verses nobody had ever heard before.
And I learned them too.
And I was singing them for years and decades back in the days when nobody had heard them before.
Although anybody can find them now, so I don't sing the whole thing.
But I will leave you tonight with the last verse I ever heard my father sing for me.
It goes something like this. _
Nobody [C] living can [G] ever stop me.
As I [D] go walking my freedom [G] highway.
_ _ [C] Nobody living [G] can make me turn back.
[D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your land [G] and it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood Forest [Gb] to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
_ [D] This land was made for you [G] and me.
This land [C] is your [Am] land [D] and [G] it's always my land.
From [D] California to New [G] York Island.
From the [C] Redwood [Am] Forest to the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[Em] _ [D] This land was made for [G] you and [C] me.
_ [G] _ Thank you [A] very much.
Have a good night. _