Chords for This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie - Super Easy Beginner Song Ukulele Tutorial in C,D,E and G
Tempo:
190.6 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
C
Eb
Ab
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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This land [C] is your land, land is [G] my land.
[D] California, the New [G] York Island.
[C]
River forests, the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[Am] [D] This land was made for me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now.
[C] [A] Hey what's up everybody, welcome to [D] 10thumbspro.com.
Today [Eb] we're doing This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
I've heard this [Db] referred to as a child's song and I would disagree.
I don't [Dm] think it's a children's song, I think it's a [Gb] classic American [Db] folk [D] song.
That is [C] part of our [Eb] country, part of our nation.
One that children learn to sing, but one that [Db] we should all appreciate still.
Woody [F] Guthrie, traveling [Gb] patron saint of [Ab] the guitar playing rambling man, okay?
[F] Alright, I'm going to teach you in three keys.
I'm going to teach [Gbm] you in the key of C, [A] teach you [Db] in the key of G, which is the easiest [F] for my voice and the easiest to play in my opinion.
And the key of D, which would match up with [A] Woody Guthrie's original recording, okay?
So I [F] want you, if you came to this lesson, that's the idea.
But you can also go to 10thumbspro [C].com where we have new songs every Wednesday [Gb] and Saturday.
Click on [Dm] ukulele and see all our old lessons, organized, easy to look through.
But if you came just to learn the song, that's cool, that's the idea.
Grab your ukulele, grab [Ab] your brain, grab your attention span, and follow me on into this lesson.
Let's break it [Ebm] down.
This land is your land, this land [Eb] is my land, alright?
Well first let's do it in the key of C because it's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
I'm sorry, the key of G.
It's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
You need [G] a D chord.
You need a C [C] chord.
And you [Ab] need a [D] D chord.
Now, it's [G] in the key of C, [Eb] but we're not going to start on the key [G] of G.
We're not going to start on the G, we're going to [C] start on the C.
[Abm] And our strum [Ab] pattern is just going down, [C] down, down, down.
It repeats [Ab] itself twice on the [C] C.
Down, down.
[Eb] If you're having trouble and you're really [D] a true [B] beginner, what I want you to do is just focus on that [C] C and just sit there.
And take your energy with this.
I really want [Eb] you to concentrate on that.
That strum pattern happens two times on each chord.
So you're going to [C] go C.
Nice and easy to [G] achieve.
Nice and [Am] easy to [D] achieve.
Back to G.
[G]
This [C] land is your land, this land is [G] my land.
[D]
California, and [G] New York Island, and the [C] Redwood Forest.
Going straight [G]
[C] to [D] this land was made for me [G] and you.
And that's the chorus, [D] okay?
So that's the whole song if you do it in the key [C] of C.
You just C two times.
[G]
[D] D two times.
[G] G two times.
Now, [E] Woody Guthrie had a little lower voice.
[Eb] And he would have sang it in the key [D] of D.
Or at least the recording [Abm] that's the most popular is in the [Ab] key of D, [D] okay?
So in that key, you're going to [G] start on the G.
Two times.
[D] D two times.
[Am] [A] A two times.
[D]
D two times.
This land [G] is your land, this land [D] is my land.
[A] California, and New [D] York Island, [G]
to the [C] Gold Street [D]
Wall.
[Am] [A]
You [D] and me.
That's how you play the [G] whole song, but just repeat.
[D]
[A]
[D]
So you can also find, let's say there's a particular key that you're comfortable in.
You're comfortable in the key of C.
Well, we'll talk one, four, five.
[G] So, maybe [Eb] you have, I mean those are the two keys I taught you
because I think that those are the most common that you're going to see [G] with this particular song.
But it's a one, four, [Eb] five.
[D] What does that mean?
It means you can transpose this to any key that you're comfortable with.
[Eb] One, four, five in the key of [C] C is C, [F] F, [G] and E.
[Eb] And it starts [Am] on the four, [C] goes to the root, [D] and then to the five.
So in the key of C, it would sound like [F] this.
[C]
[G]
[C]
[Eb]
Now, we've already done it in the D.
Let's do it in the key of E.
Here we [E] go.
I don't know why you would choose E, but maybe it's for your voice not being related.
You would need an E, [B] a B, [Dbm]
and an A.
It would [A] start in the A, [Am] go to the [E] E, [B] up to the D, [Ab] and up to the [E] E.
[A]
I wouldn't [Ab] recommend the key of E because the key of E on the [G] ukulele can be kind of [C] tricky, okay?
Alright, so that's the whole song.
I'm going to play it in the first key that I taught you, in the key [G] of [Eb]
[D]
[G] [Ebm]
G.
And [D] I'm going to sing along with the first [C] chorus.
And I'll sing the chorus the first time [Ab] through, and then I'll just play it through the next time, and you can try to sing it, [F] okay?
You can find the lyrics on the internet.
The melody is the same for [Ab] the whole song.
There's no changes.
So here we go.
Let's take it from the top.
[C] Alright.
[G]
[C] [D]
[G]
This [C] land is your land, is [D]
my land.
California, the New [G] York Island, [C]
Gold [G] Stream water.
[Am] [D] This land will be me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now.
[C]
[G]
[D]
[G]
[C]
[G] [C]
[D] This land will be [Am] me [G] and you.
Alright, this land was made for me [Ab] and you.
Woody Guthrie.
[G] Enjoy.
[Dm] Alright, this is your land, this is my [F] land.
This is your land, this is our land.
I'm really happy to bring you this song.
It's a [Dm] great jam.
I'm happy that you learned it, alright?
If you want to get involved, you want to help Ten Thumbs grow, you can go over to tenthumbspro.com.
Watch all our lessons.
We do Skype lessons, we have ukulele technique, [Ab] ukulele blues.
[Gb] You can even become a patron for as little as a dollar a month.
[F] And all the money you give to us, all the money [B] you donate to us, we put [A] right back into Ten Thumbs to help it grow, okay?
We got big [Eb] dreams at Ten Thumbs [Gb] and we would love it if you could help us [Eb] make those dreams come true.
But if you can't reach the jam, it's cool.
I dig it and I respect it, okay?
And until next [G] Wednesday, until next Saturday, tenthumbspro.com.
Keep on [Dm] keeping on, my friends.
Keep on keeping [Gb] on.
Take care.
Ciao.
[N]
[D] California, the New [G] York Island.
[C]
River forests, the Gulf [G] Stream waters.
[Am] [D] This land was made for me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now.
[C] [A] Hey what's up everybody, welcome to [D] 10thumbspro.com.
Today [Eb] we're doing This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
I've heard this [Db] referred to as a child's song and I would disagree.
I don't [Dm] think it's a children's song, I think it's a [Gb] classic American [Db] folk [D] song.
That is [C] part of our [Eb] country, part of our nation.
One that children learn to sing, but one that [Db] we should all appreciate still.
Woody [F] Guthrie, traveling [Gb] patron saint of [Ab] the guitar playing rambling man, okay?
[F] Alright, I'm going to teach you in three keys.
I'm going to teach [Gbm] you in the key of C, [A] teach you [Db] in the key of G, which is the easiest [F] for my voice and the easiest to play in my opinion.
And the key of D, which would match up with [A] Woody Guthrie's original recording, okay?
So I [F] want you, if you came to this lesson, that's the idea.
But you can also go to 10thumbspro [C].com where we have new songs every Wednesday [Gb] and Saturday.
Click on [Dm] ukulele and see all our old lessons, organized, easy to look through.
But if you came just to learn the song, that's cool, that's the idea.
Grab your ukulele, grab [Ab] your brain, grab your attention span, and follow me on into this lesson.
Let's break it [Ebm] down.
This land is your land, this land [Eb] is my land, alright?
Well first let's do it in the key of C because it's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
I'm sorry, the key of G.
It's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
You need [G] a D chord.
You need a C [C] chord.
And you [Ab] need a [D] D chord.
Now, it's [G] in the key of C, [Eb] but we're not going to start on the key [G] of G.
We're not going to start on the G, we're going to [C] start on the C.
[Abm] And our strum [Ab] pattern is just going down, [C] down, down, down.
It repeats [Ab] itself twice on the [C] C.
Down, down.
[Eb] If you're having trouble and you're really [D] a true [B] beginner, what I want you to do is just focus on that [C] C and just sit there.
And take your energy with this.
I really want [Eb] you to concentrate on that.
That strum pattern happens two times on each chord.
So you're going to [C] go C.
Nice and easy to [G] achieve.
Nice and [Am] easy to [D] achieve.
Back to G.
[G]
This [C] land is your land, this land is [G] my land.
[D]
California, and [G] New York Island, and the [C] Redwood Forest.
Going straight [G]
[C] to [D] this land was made for me [G] and you.
And that's the chorus, [D] okay?
So that's the whole song if you do it in the key [C] of C.
You just C two times.
[G]
[D] D two times.
[G] G two times.
Now, [E] Woody Guthrie had a little lower voice.
[Eb] And he would have sang it in the key [D] of D.
Or at least the recording [Abm] that's the most popular is in the [Ab] key of D, [D] okay?
So in that key, you're going to [G] start on the G.
Two times.
[D] D two times.
[Am] [A] A two times.
[D]
D two times.
This land [G] is your land, this land [D] is my land.
[A] California, and New [D] York Island, [G]
to the [C] Gold Street [D]
Wall.
[Am] [A]
You [D] and me.
That's how you play the [G] whole song, but just repeat.
[D]
[A]
[D]
So you can also find, let's say there's a particular key that you're comfortable in.
You're comfortable in the key of C.
Well, we'll talk one, four, five.
[G] So, maybe [Eb] you have, I mean those are the two keys I taught you
because I think that those are the most common that you're going to see [G] with this particular song.
But it's a one, four, [Eb] five.
[D] What does that mean?
It means you can transpose this to any key that you're comfortable with.
[Eb] One, four, five in the key of [C] C is C, [F] F, [G] and E.
[Eb] And it starts [Am] on the four, [C] goes to the root, [D] and then to the five.
So in the key of C, it would sound like [F] this.
[C]
[G]
[C]
[Eb]
Now, we've already done it in the D.
Let's do it in the key of E.
Here we [E] go.
I don't know why you would choose E, but maybe it's for your voice not being related.
You would need an E, [B] a B, [Dbm]
and an A.
It would [A] start in the A, [Am] go to the [E] E, [B] up to the D, [Ab] and up to the [E] E.
[A]
I wouldn't [Ab] recommend the key of E because the key of E on the [G] ukulele can be kind of [C] tricky, okay?
Alright, so that's the whole song.
I'm going to play it in the first key that I taught you, in the key [G] of [Eb]
[D]
[G] [Ebm]
G.
And [D] I'm going to sing along with the first [C] chorus.
And I'll sing the chorus the first time [Ab] through, and then I'll just play it through the next time, and you can try to sing it, [F] okay?
You can find the lyrics on the internet.
The melody is the same for [Ab] the whole song.
There's no changes.
So here we go.
Let's take it from the top.
[C] Alright.
[G]
[C] [D]
[G]
This [C] land is your land, is [D]
my land.
California, the New [G] York Island, [C]
Gold [G] Stream water.
[Am] [D] This land will be me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now.
[C]
[G]
[D]
[G]
[C]
[G] [C]
[D] This land will be [Am] me [G] and you.
Alright, this land was made for me [Ab] and you.
Woody Guthrie.
[G] Enjoy.
[Dm] Alright, this is your land, this is my [F] land.
This is your land, this is our land.
I'm really happy to bring you this song.
It's a [Dm] great jam.
I'm happy that you learned it, alright?
If you want to get involved, you want to help Ten Thumbs grow, you can go over to tenthumbspro.com.
Watch all our lessons.
We do Skype lessons, we have ukulele technique, [Ab] ukulele blues.
[Gb] You can even become a patron for as little as a dollar a month.
[F] And all the money you give to us, all the money [B] you donate to us, we put [A] right back into Ten Thumbs to help it grow, okay?
We got big [Eb] dreams at Ten Thumbs [Gb] and we would love it if you could help us [Eb] make those dreams come true.
But if you can't reach the jam, it's cool.
I dig it and I respect it, okay?
And until next [G] Wednesday, until next Saturday, tenthumbspro.com.
Keep on [Dm] keeping on, my friends.
Keep on keeping [Gb] on.
Take care.
Ciao.
[N]
Key:
G
D
C
Eb
Ab
G
D
C
_ _ _ This land [C] is your land, _ land is [G] my _ land.
_ _ _ [D] California, _ _ _ the New [G] York _ Island.
_ _ _ _ [C] _
River forests, _ the Gulf [G] Stream _ _ _ waters.
_ [Am] _ [D] This land was made for me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [A] _ Hey what's up everybody, welcome to [D] 10thumbspro.com.
Today [Eb] we're doing This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
I've heard this [Db] referred to as a child's song and I would disagree.
I don't [Dm] think it's a children's song, I think it's a _ [Gb] _ classic American [Db] _ folk [D] song.
That is [C] part of our [Eb] country, part of our nation.
One that children learn to sing, but one that [Db] we should all appreciate still.
Woody [F] Guthrie, _ traveling [Gb] patron saint of [Ab] the guitar playing rambling man, okay?
_ [F] Alright, I'm going to teach you in three keys.
I'm going to teach [Gbm] you in the key of C, [A] teach you [Db] in the key of G, which is the easiest [F] for my voice and the easiest to play in my opinion.
And the key of D, which would match up with [A] Woody Guthrie's original recording, okay?
So I [F] want you, if you came to this lesson, that's the idea.
But you can also go to 10thumbspro [C].com where we have new songs every Wednesday [Gb] and Saturday.
Click on [Dm] ukulele and see all our old lessons, organized, easy to look through.
But if you came just to learn the song, that's cool, that's the idea.
Grab your ukulele, grab [Ab] your brain, grab your attention span, and follow me on into this lesson.
Let's break it [Ebm] down.
This land is your land, this land [Eb] is my land, alright?
Well first let's do it in the key of C because it's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
I'm sorry, the key of G.
It's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
You need [G] a D chord. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You need a C [C] chord. _ _ _ _ _ _
And you [Ab] need a [D] D chord. _ _
_ _ Now, it's [G] in the key of C, [Eb] but we're not going to start on the key [G] of G.
We're not going to start on the G, we're going to [C] start on the C.
[Abm] And our strum [Ab] pattern is just going down, [C] down, down, down. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It repeats [Ab] itself twice on the [C] C.
Down, down. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] If you're having trouble and you're really [D] a true [B] beginner, what I want you to do is just focus on that [C] C and just sit there. _ _ _
And take your energy with this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I really want [Eb] you to concentrate on that. _ _ _
That strum pattern happens two times on each chord.
So you're going to [C] go C. _ _ _ _
_ Nice and easy to [G] achieve. _ _
_ _ Nice and [Am] easy to [D] achieve.
_ _ _ _ _ Back to G.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
This [C] land is your land, _ this land is [G] my land.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
California, _ _ and [G] New York _ Island, _ _ and the [C] Redwood _ Forest. _ _ _
Going straight [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] to [D] this _ land was made for me [G] and you. _ _
_ _ And that's the chorus, [D] okay? _
So that's the whole song if you do it in the key [C] of C.
You just C _ _ _ _ two times. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] D two times.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] G two times.
_ _ _ Now, [E] Woody Guthrie had a little lower voice.
[Eb] And he would have sang it in the key [D] of D.
Or at least the recording [Abm] that's the most popular is in the [Ab] key of D, [D] okay?
So in that key, you're going to [G] start on the G. _ _ _ _ _
Two times.
_ [D] _ _ D two times.
_ _ [Am] _ _ [A] A two times.
_ _ _ _ [D] _
D two times.
_ _ _ This land [G] is your land, _ _ this land [D] is my land. _
_ _ _ [A] California, _ _ _ _ and New [D] York Island, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ to the [C] Gold Street [D] _
_ Wall.
_ _ _ [Am] _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You [D] and me.
_ _ _ _ That's how you play the [G] whole song, but just repeat. _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
So you can also find, let's say there's a particular key that you're comfortable in.
You're comfortable in the key of C.
Well, we'll talk one, four, five. _ _ _
_ _ [G] So, maybe [Eb] you have, I mean those are the two keys I taught you
because I think that those are the most common that you're going to see [G] with this particular song.
But it's a one, four, [Eb] five.
[D] What does that mean?
It means you can transpose this to any key that you're comfortable with.
[Eb] One, four, five in the key of [C] C is C, _ [F] F, [G] and E.
_ _ [Eb] And it starts [Am] on the four, _ [C] goes to the root, [D] and then to the five.
So in the key of C, it would sound like [F] this. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb]
Now, we've already done it in the D.
_ Let's do it in the key of E.
Here we [E] go. _
I don't know why you would choose E, but maybe it's for your voice not being related.
You would need an E, _ _ [B] a B, _ _ _ [Dbm]
and an A.
_ It would [A] start in the A, _ _ _ _ _ [Am] go to the [E] E, _ _ _ _ _ [B] up to the D, _ _ [Ab] and up to the [E] E.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
I wouldn't [Ab] recommend the key of E because the key of E on the [G] ukulele can be kind of [C] tricky, okay?
_ Alright, so that's the whole song.
I'm going to play it in the first key that I taught you, in the key [G] of _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ G.
And [D] I'm going to sing along with the first [C] chorus.
_ And I'll sing the chorus the first time [Ab] through, and then I'll just play it through the next time, and you can try to sing it, [F] okay?
You can find the lyrics on the internet.
The melody is the same for [Ab] the whole song.
There's no changes.
So here we go.
Let's take it from the top.
[C] Alright. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ This [C] land is your land, _ _ is [D]
my land.
_ _ _ _ California, _ _ _ the New [G] York _ Island, _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ Gold [G] Stream _ _ water.
_ _ [Am] _ [D] This land will be me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ This land will be [Am] me [G] and you. _ _ _ _
_ Alright, this land was made for me [Ab] and you.
Woody Guthrie.
[G] Enjoy. _ _ _
[Dm] Alright, this is your land, this is my [F] land.
This is your land, this is our land.
I'm really happy to bring you this song.
It's a [Dm] great jam.
I'm happy that you learned it, alright?
If you want to get involved, you want to help Ten Thumbs grow, you can go over to tenthumbspro.com.
Watch all our lessons.
We do Skype lessons, we have ukulele technique, [Ab] ukulele blues.
[Gb] You can even become a patron for as little as a dollar a month.
_ [F] And all the money you give to us, all the money [B] you donate to us, we put [A] right back into Ten Thumbs to help it grow, okay?
We got big [Eb] dreams at Ten Thumbs [Gb] and we would love it if you could help us [Eb] make those dreams come true.
But if you can't reach the jam, it's cool.
I dig it and I respect it, okay?
And until next [G] Wednesday, until next Saturday, tenthumbspro.com.
Keep on [Dm] keeping on, my friends.
Keep on keeping [Gb] on.
Take care.
Ciao.
[N] _
_ _ _ [D] California, _ _ _ the New [G] York _ Island.
_ _ _ _ [C] _
River forests, _ the Gulf [G] Stream _ _ _ waters.
_ [Am] _ [D] This land was made for me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [A] _ Hey what's up everybody, welcome to [D] 10thumbspro.com.
Today [Eb] we're doing This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
I've heard this [Db] referred to as a child's song and I would disagree.
I don't [Dm] think it's a children's song, I think it's a _ [Gb] _ classic American [Db] _ folk [D] song.
That is [C] part of our [Eb] country, part of our nation.
One that children learn to sing, but one that [Db] we should all appreciate still.
Woody [F] Guthrie, _ traveling [Gb] patron saint of [Ab] the guitar playing rambling man, okay?
_ [F] Alright, I'm going to teach you in three keys.
I'm going to teach [Gbm] you in the key of C, [A] teach you [Db] in the key of G, which is the easiest [F] for my voice and the easiest to play in my opinion.
And the key of D, which would match up with [A] Woody Guthrie's original recording, okay?
So I [F] want you, if you came to this lesson, that's the idea.
But you can also go to 10thumbspro [C].com where we have new songs every Wednesday [Gb] and Saturday.
Click on [Dm] ukulele and see all our old lessons, organized, easy to look through.
But if you came just to learn the song, that's cool, that's the idea.
Grab your ukulele, grab [Ab] your brain, grab your attention span, and follow me on into this lesson.
Let's break it [Ebm] down.
This land is your land, this land [Eb] is my land, alright?
Well first let's do it in the key of C because it's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
I'm sorry, the key of G.
It's going to be a little easier for our beginners.
You need [G] a D chord. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You need a C [C] chord. _ _ _ _ _ _
And you [Ab] need a [D] D chord. _ _
_ _ Now, it's [G] in the key of C, [Eb] but we're not going to start on the key [G] of G.
We're not going to start on the G, we're going to [C] start on the C.
[Abm] And our strum [Ab] pattern is just going down, [C] down, down, down. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It repeats [Ab] itself twice on the [C] C.
Down, down. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] If you're having trouble and you're really [D] a true [B] beginner, what I want you to do is just focus on that [C] C and just sit there. _ _ _
And take your energy with this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I really want [Eb] you to concentrate on that. _ _ _
That strum pattern happens two times on each chord.
So you're going to [C] go C. _ _ _ _
_ Nice and easy to [G] achieve. _ _
_ _ Nice and [Am] easy to [D] achieve.
_ _ _ _ _ Back to G.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
This [C] land is your land, _ this land is [G] my land.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
California, _ _ and [G] New York _ Island, _ _ and the [C] Redwood _ Forest. _ _ _
Going straight [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] to [D] this _ land was made for me [G] and you. _ _
_ _ And that's the chorus, [D] okay? _
So that's the whole song if you do it in the key [C] of C.
You just C _ _ _ _ two times. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] D two times.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] G two times.
_ _ _ Now, [E] Woody Guthrie had a little lower voice.
[Eb] And he would have sang it in the key [D] of D.
Or at least the recording [Abm] that's the most popular is in the [Ab] key of D, [D] okay?
So in that key, you're going to [G] start on the G. _ _ _ _ _
Two times.
_ [D] _ _ D two times.
_ _ [Am] _ _ [A] A two times.
_ _ _ _ [D] _
D two times.
_ _ _ This land [G] is your land, _ _ this land [D] is my land. _
_ _ _ [A] California, _ _ _ _ and New [D] York Island, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ to the [C] Gold Street [D] _
_ Wall.
_ _ _ [Am] _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You [D] and me.
_ _ _ _ That's how you play the [G] whole song, but just repeat. _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
So you can also find, let's say there's a particular key that you're comfortable in.
You're comfortable in the key of C.
Well, we'll talk one, four, five. _ _ _
_ _ [G] So, maybe [Eb] you have, I mean those are the two keys I taught you
because I think that those are the most common that you're going to see [G] with this particular song.
But it's a one, four, [Eb] five.
[D] What does that mean?
It means you can transpose this to any key that you're comfortable with.
[Eb] One, four, five in the key of [C] C is C, _ [F] F, [G] and E.
_ _ [Eb] And it starts [Am] on the four, _ [C] goes to the root, [D] and then to the five.
So in the key of C, it would sound like [F] this. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb]
Now, we've already done it in the D.
_ Let's do it in the key of E.
Here we [E] go. _
I don't know why you would choose E, but maybe it's for your voice not being related.
You would need an E, _ _ [B] a B, _ _ _ [Dbm]
and an A.
_ It would [A] start in the A, _ _ _ _ _ [Am] go to the [E] E, _ _ _ _ _ [B] up to the D, _ _ [Ab] and up to the [E] E.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
I wouldn't [Ab] recommend the key of E because the key of E on the [G] ukulele can be kind of [C] tricky, okay?
_ Alright, so that's the whole song.
I'm going to play it in the first key that I taught you, in the key [G] of _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ G.
And [D] I'm going to sing along with the first [C] chorus.
_ And I'll sing the chorus the first time [Ab] through, and then I'll just play it through the next time, and you can try to sing it, [F] okay?
You can find the lyrics on the internet.
The melody is the same for [Ab] the whole song.
There's no changes.
So here we go.
Let's take it from the top.
[C] Alright. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ This [C] land is your land, _ _ is [D]
my land.
_ _ _ _ California, _ _ _ the New [G] York _ Island, _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ Gold [G] Stream _ _ water.
_ _ [Am] _ [D] This land will be me [G] and you.
Alright, you sing it now. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ This land will be [Am] me [G] and you. _ _ _ _
_ Alright, this land was made for me [Ab] and you.
Woody Guthrie.
[G] Enjoy. _ _ _
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