IRONY CAN BE PRETTY IRONIC SOMETIMES: ‘This Land Is Your Land’ Is Still Private Property, Court Rules.
Flashback: “I saw a sign that said ‘private property,’ but on the other side it didn’t say nothing. This side was made for you and me,” Woody Guthrie sung during the earliest performances of his song in 1944. Pete Seeger “reinserted that Marxist ode to taking private property” back into his performance of “This Land Is Your Land,” alongside Bruce Springsteen at Barack Obama’s inauguration.