This Land Is Your Land

[filkertom]

My fellow Americans: No matter your political inclination, this will, I hope, make you feel fantastic.

When I grow up, I wanna be Peter Seeger.

ETA: This thread at dKos has videos of a lot more of the afternoon concert, as well as Obama's speech. There's also the text of the prayer delivered by The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, which HBO apparently didn't deign to broadcast, which is a damn shame.

ETA2: YouTube has taken down all the video they can find of this, because HBO is claiming copyright violation. Of the inaugural concert? I suspect there will be a little noise on this.

ETA3: Can't stop the signal.

ETA4: A new embed, above. Thanks to braider.

Comments

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Absolutely Woody Guthrie wrote it. A commenter at YouTube said, and I agree, the only way that performance could've been made better was if Arlo had been there.

And I knew someone was gonna mention Lorre.... :-7

[zellion.livejournal.com]

Well, this is you, so someone pretty much had to mention Lorre. I sang that song for an 85 year old woman who lived in the nursing home I used to work at and she laughed so hard.

[jss]

Yeah, but if you'd've said "Peter Seeger" it'd've scanned too. :-P

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Thought about it. In fact, I just changed it. :)

[jss]

:-)

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Now, what if he wanted to be an old woman?