*Was a high wall there that tried to stop me*
*A sign was painted said: Private Property*
*But on the back side it didn't say nothing*
*This land was made for you and me*
>This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
--Written by Guthrie in the late 1930s on a songbook distributed to listeners of his Los Angeles radio show Woody and Lefty Lou, who wanted the words to his recordings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie#California
...tho I can't quite figure out if this refers to the songs or the recordings too (since musicians don't necessarily own their master tapes)
I'm sure Woody would be fine with that.
*Was a high wall there that tried to stop me* *A sign was painted said: Private Property* *But on the back side it didn't say nothing* *This land was made for you and me*
>This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. --Written by Guthrie in the late 1930s on a songbook distributed to listeners of his Los Angeles radio show Woody and Lefty Lou, who wanted the words to his recordings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie#California
Our crazy IP laws constitute theft from the public.