[Music]
all around this country troubling me
and I hear the horse is calling me
asking do you know and do you care I do
know and do you care
so i’ma gonna do what I have to do say
what I have to say
I’m gonna be what I have to be oh now
won’t you come on along with me
won’t you come along
[Music]
don’t cos no sorrow don’t cos no pain
well I wanna cause what I have to cause
unto this world is free of shame to this
room is free of shame so imma gonna do
what I have to do say what I have to say
and I’m gonna be what I have to be now
won’t you come on along with me won’t
you come along with me good morning so
uh I’m kind of gonna break a break
script a bit but it’s truly humbling and
it’s an amazing experience to be on the
stage with so many inspiring people
[Music]
I know that I wouldn’t be here if it
wasn’t for Phil Ochs who wrote this song
and and Phil wouldn’t have written this
song if it wasn’t for a gentleman by the
name of Woody Guthrie and I think that’s
a testament to one of the conversations
that often surrounds this kind of work
and activism in any time we try to bring
people together and have these kind of
discussions an underlying question of
does the work that you’re doing change
the world and I know in my life I’ve
thought if I’ve written a good enough
song that we’d wake up the next day and
the world would be different and you
could go to the R section of your
dictionary right next to the word
revolution my face would be there
it doesn’t work like that
[Music]
but what art does and what music does
and what discussions like the ones we’re
having today do they inspire people and
it’s people that change the world that’s
a very very powerful thing there are a
lot of folks who are afraid of that
power and a great example of that fear
is Woody Guthrie himself now many of us
are familiar with Woody Guthrie because
of the song this land is your land
we probably learned that in the third
grade but what they don’t tell you is
that Woody Guthrie wrote this land is
your land is a response to urban
Berlin’s god Bless America because what
he didn’t believe that that song
included everyone they also didn’t teach
you a verse of that song and they were
pretty tactical with that effort because
they were afraid if you heard that story
and you knew that verse that one day you
might be in a punk rock band or one day
you might be rubbing elbows with
scientists and therapists and as you’ll
find out later a dude who knows the
Dalai Lama and on stage at the bottom
[Music]
so I’d like to finish with that verse
and I know it’s early and I know we’ve
taken it a lot but maybe we can sing the
end of this one together in the squares
of the city in the shadow of the steeple
near the relief office I see my people
and some are hungry and some are
wondering is this land still made for
you and me this land is your land this
land is my land from California to the
New York island from the redwood forest
to the Gulf Stream all
this sand is made for you and me Otto
this land is your land this land is my
land from California to the New York
island from the redwood forest to the
Gulf Stream waters this land was made
you and me all right thank you
[Music]
[Music]
you
all around this country troubling me
and I hear the horse is calling me
asking do you know and do you care I do
know and do you care
so i’ma gonna do what I have to do say
what I have to say
I’m gonna be what I have to be oh now
won’t you come on along with me
won’t you come along
[Music]
don’t cos no sorrow don’t cos no pain
well I wanna cause what I have to cause
unto this world is free of shame to this
room is free of shame so imma gonna do
what I have to do say what I have to say
and I’m gonna be what I have to be now
won’t you come on along with me won’t
you come along with me good morning so
uh I’m kind of gonna break a break
script a bit but it’s truly humbling and
it’s an amazing experience to be on the
stage with so many inspiring people
[Music]
I know that I wouldn’t be here if it
wasn’t for Phil Ochs who wrote this song
and and Phil wouldn’t have written this
song if it wasn’t for a gentleman by the
name of Woody Guthrie and I think that’s
a testament to one of the conversations
that often surrounds this kind of work
and activism in any time we try to bring
people together and have these kind of
discussions an underlying question of
does the work that you’re doing change
the world and I know in my life I’ve
thought if I’ve written a good enough
song that we’d wake up the next day and
the world would be different and you
could go to the R section of your
dictionary right next to the word
revolution my face would be there
it doesn’t work like that
[Music]
but what art does and what music does
and what discussions like the ones we’re
having today do they inspire people and
it’s people that change the world that’s
a very very powerful thing there are a
lot of folks who are afraid of that
power and a great example of that fear
is Woody Guthrie himself now many of us
are familiar with Woody Guthrie because
of the song this land is your land
we probably learned that in the third
grade but what they don’t tell you is
that Woody Guthrie wrote this land is
your land is a response to urban
Berlin’s god Bless America because what
he didn’t believe that that song
included everyone they also didn’t teach
you a verse of that song and they were
pretty tactical with that effort because
they were afraid if you heard that story
and you knew that verse that one day you
might be in a punk rock band or one day
you might be rubbing elbows with
scientists and therapists and as you’ll
find out later a dude who knows the
Dalai Lama and on stage at the bottom
[Music]
so I’d like to finish with that verse
and I know it’s early and I know we’ve
taken it a lot but maybe we can sing the
end of this one together in the squares
of the city in the shadow of the steeple
near the relief office I see my people
and some are hungry and some are
wondering is this land still made for
you and me this land is your land this
land is my land from California to the
New York island from the redwood forest
to the Gulf Stream all
this sand is made for you and me Otto
this land is your land this land is my
land from California to the New York
island from the redwood forest to the
Gulf Stream waters this land was made
you and me all right thank you
[Music]
[Music]
you
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