--- title: Bernie Sanders Sings With Vampire Weekend at Iowa Rally description: Bernie Sanders joined indie rock group Vampire Weekend on stage to sing 'This Land Is Your Land' during a rally in Iowa on Saturday. canonical: https://time.com/4201508/bernie-sanders-vampire-weekend/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-31T17:05:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:53.529Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Bernie Sanders Sing With Vampire Weekend in Iowa og:description: They sang "This Land Is Your Land" og:url: https://time.com/4201508/bernie-sanders-vampire-weekend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Bernie Sanders Sing With Vampire Weekend in Iowa twitter:description: They sang "This Land Is Your Land" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Bernie Sanders Sing 'This Land Is Your Land' With Vampire Weekend in Iowa > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jan 31, 2016 5:05 PM UTC  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jan 31, 2016 5:05 PM UTC Bernie Sanders joined indie rock group [Vampire Weekend on stage to sing _This Land Is Your Land_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jSWBbERXEI) during a rally in Iowa on Saturday. The Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful appeared with the band at the end of the rally at the University of Iowa to belt out the tune by Woody Guthrie, [the New York _Times_ reports](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/30/sanders-rallies-iowa-students/). “You know we got to play one more for Bernie, right?” a band member says, according to video of the performance. “We know he likes this one.” Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig later called Sanders a “once-in-a-lifetime candidate,” [according to _Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-bernie-sanders-sing-with-vampire-weekend-at-iowa-rally-20160131). 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