This Land Is Your Land (Collection of Woody Guthrie Songs)

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Summary: "This Land" is a disappointment
Review: I've been looking for a good Woody Guthrie songbook for years. This one sounded good - a 160-page songbook from a reputable music publisher, Hal Leonard. Actually, the songbook is only 32 pages, 8 songs. The [money] list price is for a packet of five identical booklets (total 160 pages). Amazon sent me only one booklet from the package. The Amazon listing does say that the book has only eight songs, but I missed that - who'd think a 160-page book would have only 8 songs?....

Woody Guthrie wrote hundreds of wonderful songs. I sure don't want a songbook with just eight of them. Heck, the book doesn't even have all the verses to "This Land Is Your Land" - it censors out the last three verses, the verses that give this song its real power. It also censors out much of another favorite song of mine, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh."