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
Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie song) Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie song) "Ain't Got No Home" (or "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore") is a song made popular by Woody Guthrie in which the singer laments the difficulties that life presents him. It was based on the old gospel song known variously as "Can't Feel at Home" or "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore," a version of which was recorded by the Carter Family in 1931. Guthrie wrote his version of the song in response to this version, in an attempt to capture more effectively the "unrelieved anger" of