The censored lyric of "This Land Is Your Land"

[MineralMan]

6. That, too.

The "official" lyrics changed from time to time.

Everyone picked up that song in the 1960s. Verses got added. Verses got subtracted. Everyone sang it.

Even dorky teenaged kids like me were singing in folk song groups. My group even sang on a side stage at the Monterey Folk Festival. I saw Joan Baez standing nearby, watching us for a few minutes.

Groups like mine were mining things like the Lomax collections of American Folk songs to find new material that not everyone was singing. It was fun time, I learned to play 5-string banjo from Pete Seeger's book. I went on to learn Scruggs-style from some random guy in a music store. Our guitar player was normally a clarinet player, who learned enough chords to deal with the simple music.

We were popular in my little town and the surrounding area, and got to sing in all sorts of places. Then, we all moved away to go to whatever colleges we went to. I dragged my banjo around in the USAF. I even had to play it for the Turkish customs folks to prove I played and wasn't sneaking banjos into the country. That turned into a minor concert in the Istanbul airport. I played the theme from Beverley Hillbillies, Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Cripple Creek, to a small crowd of people going through customs, and then went on my way.

Later, I taught a couple of Turkish string players the basics in exchange for them teaching me how to play Turkish folk instruments. Music is a universal language.