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2 unusual facts about This Land Is Your Land


This Land Is Your Land

In Season 4, Episode 7 of The Big Bang Theory, the Indian-born Raj Koothrappali recites the first verse of the song out for fear of deportation in an interview with an FBI agent to clarify his relationship with the United States.

In 2010, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, the surviving members of Peter, Paul and Mary, requested that the National Organization for Marriage stop using their recording of "This Land is Your Land" at their rallies, stating in a letter that the organization's philosophy was "directly contrary to the advocacy position" held by the group.


Mojoworld

Mojoworld is the name of Mojo Nixon's "amusement park of my mind," as described in his cover of the song, This Land is Your Land from the album Root Hog or Die.

Tao Rodríguez-Seeger

They sang Woody Guthrie's famous song "This Land Is Your Land" during the finale, before an audience estimated at 400,000.

Timeline of Electronic Frontier Foundation actions

EFF successfully defends JibJab, the creators of a parody flash animation piece using Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land", and uncovered evidence that the classic folk song is in fact already part of the public domain.


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