Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – This Land Is Your Land

A unas horas de la ceremonia más seguida del mundo del celuloide, hoy era de obligada publicación una canción perteneciente a una banda sonora. Es el caso de esta «This Land Is Your Land«, que podemos encontrar en la película Up In the Air (con una actuación tremenda de George Clooney). La potente voz de Sharon Jones (cultivada todos los domingos en un coro de gospel de Nueva York), se hace cargo de una versión neo-funk de todo un clásico en Estados Unidos escrito por Woody Guthrie en 1940 (¿quién no ha visto la típica escena de niños cantando esto el día de acción de gracias?). Eso sí, es espectacular el cambio hecho por Sharon Jones y The Dap Kings… porque sólo la identificas por la letra. Ni que decir tiene que muchos otros artistas han creado sus covers: Counting Crows, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, …

Un poquito de soul para finalizar la semana.

Letra:

This land is your land,
This land is my land,
From California to the New York Island,
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters,
I tell you, this land was made for you and me.

As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway,
I saw below me that golden valley,
And I’m saying, this land was made for you and me.

As I was walking they that tried to stop me,
They put on that sign that said, it said «Private Property,»
Well, looking on the back side, it didn’t say nothing,
So it must be that side was made for you and me.

One bright sunny morning, in the shadow of the steeple,
Down by the relief office I saw my people,
You know, now they still hungry, I still wondering,
I was wondering if this land was made for you and me.

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the Staten Island
Down to Georgia to Philadelphia
To Mississippi to Houston, Texas, and L.A.

You know this land is your land,
This land is my land,
This land is your land,
Oh, is my land,
This land was made for you and me.