"When the sun came shining as I was strolling, And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling, As the fog was lifting a voice come chanting: This land was made for you and me."
— Woody Guthrie

January 1, 1970

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This is one of the more variable of the stanzas; other renditions include: — Where the wind is blowing I go a strolling The wheat field waving and the dust clouds rolling The fog is lifting and the wind is saying: This land is made for you and me. — The sun comes shining as I was strolling, The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling, The fog was lifting as a voice come chanting: This land was made for you and me.