This Land Is Your Land This Land Is Your Land "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940, based on an existing melody, a Carter Family tune called "When the World's on Fire", in critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." When Guthrie was tired of hearing Kate Smith sing "God Bless America" on the radio in the late 1930s, he sarcastically wrote "God Blessed America for Me" before renaming it "This Land Is Your Land." In 2002, "This Land Is Your Land" was one
God Bless Miss Black America produced by Julia Kidd and Daisy Metz. Five tracks from the album were released as single, they were; All five were included in two of John Peel's Festive Fiftys. ""Don't Speak My Mind"" and ""Human Punk"" were included in the 2001 list, placed at number 42 and number 14 respectively, while ""Infinite Chinese Box"", ""Miss Black America"" and ""Talk Hard"" were placed at 45, 11 and 3 respectively in the 2002 list. The album has been described as a ""fast 'n' hard sonic pummelling"", and that ""much of God Bless sounds like the more mature Manic Street Preachers playing U2's