--- 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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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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