Each Friday I pick a song–new, old, borrowed, blue–that’s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.

This is “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie:

Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” is at once and expression of, and protest against the degradation of, American ideals. American children learn it in schools.  Woody Guthrie’s guitar says, “This Machine Kills Fascists.”