Julia Ericson speaking parts

ERICSON -- PLEASE PARDON ANY MISSPELLED NAMES!

J. ERICSON

ERICSON-Tanvi

1. Our country finally had a national anthem but that didn’t stop other musicians from writing songs to show their love of our country.

ERICSON-Jeremy

1. Woody Guthrie was a folk singer who wrote over 1,000 songs. A man happier on the road than at home, he walked, hitched and rode the rails all over the country.

ERICSON-Ananya

1. He went first to the Gulf Coast, then west to California, where he joined the half-million Dust Bowl refugees migrating in search of better lives.

ERICSON-Katherine

1. He wrote songs about what he saw and experienced as he crisscrossed the country including one his most well known songs “This Land Is Your Land” which he recorded in the 1940s.

ERICSON-Chloe

1. Our songs today captured patriotic feelings and describe the natural beauty of our land. We conclude our show with a song that uses words we’ve heard many times today. From sea to shining sea we are proud to have a country that stands for “justice and liberty for all.”