This Land Is Your Land - Variations - Versions About Other Countries

Versions About Other Countries

Many versions of the song have been recorded, with lyrics adjusted to fit other countries or regions. They include:

• Canada, a version was written and popularized by Canadian folk music group The Travellers in 1955:

This land is your land, This land is my land,

From Bonavista, to Vancouver Island

From the Arctic Circle to the Great Lakes waters,

This land was made for you and me.

...and...

I roamed and I rambled,

And I followed my footsteps

To the fir-clad forests

Of our mighty mountains

And all around me

A voice was calling,

This land was made for you and me.

• Swedish musician Mikael Wiehe has written a text in Swedish, Det här är ditt land.
• The UK anarcho-punk band Zounds rewrote it for their 1981 debut LP, The Curse of Zounds, releasing a remixed CD-single version as a fund-raising benefit in 2001. Billy Bragg has used a version of the song with UK specific lyrics in live performances. A version was included on the bonus tracks section of the 2006 re-release of his The Internationale album. Bragg's lyrics begin:

This land is your land, this land is my land,

From the coast of Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands,

From the sacred forests to the holy islands.

This land was made for you and me.

• A Welsh version was recorded by nationalist folk singer Dafydd Iwan. The chorus is:

• In Ireland, many sing the song with this chorus:

This land is your land, this land is my land

From the northern highlands to the western islands

From the hills of Kerry to the streets of (Free) Derry

This land was made for you and me

There is also an Irish rebel song, which is often performed with "Let the People Sing", with the above chorus and other verses, including:

As I went walking, by the Shannon waters

Hand in hand with, my little daughter

With the church bell ringing,

And the children singing,

This land was made for you and me

• Belgian singing duo "Hanny and Adri" made a version in 1969 in Esperanto, titled "Jen Nia Mondo," literally "Behold Our World." The chorus translates as:

Behold my world,

Behold your world,

With mountain snow

And sea wave,

From the tropics

To the poles,

Behold vast world for all of us.

• The U.S. Virgin Islands released a commercial with a song relating to the USVI.

This land is your land, this land is my land,

From California to the Virgin Islands

From the Redwood Forest, to the Caribbean waters

This land is made for you and me

• The Bahamas sings the song with the first verse altered:

This land is your land, this land is my land,

From Grand Bahama down to Inagua

From the Berry Islands, down to Mayaguana

This land is made for you and me

• Namibia also has a version.
• Israel has a version by the Taveners. The lyrics are in Hebrew.
• In India, the local Christians sang a modified version of this song in the 1980s:

This land is your land, this land is my land,

From the Himalayas, down to Cape Comorin

From Bombay city to old Calcutta

This land was made for you and me.

...and...

This land for Jesus, He is the answer

This land needs Jesus, we all must tell her

Tell of His Spirit, His saving power

Stand and declare His love to all.

• New Zealand created by students at Queens High in Dunedin in 1963, inspired by an exchange student from the States (American Field Service):

This land is your land, this land is my land

From Paihia to Stewart Island

From Lake Te Anau to Rotorua

This land was made for you and me.