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Talking Dust Bowl Blues
(Woody Guthrie)
Back in nineteen twenty seven
I had a little farm and I called it heaven
Prices up and the rain come down
I hauled my crops all into town
Got the money... bought clothes and groceries...
Fed the kids.and raised a big family
But the rain quit and the wind got high
Black old dust storm filled the sky
I traded my farm for a Ford machine
Poured it full of this gas-i-line
And started... rocking and a-rolling
Deserts and mountains... to California
Way up yonder on a mountain road
Hot motor and a heavy load
Going purty fast, wasn't even stopping
Bouncing up and down like popcorn a-popping
Had a breakdown.kind of a nervous bustdown
Mechanic feller there charged me five bucks
And said it was En-gine trouble
Way up yonder on a mountain curve
Way up yonder in a piney wood
I gave that rolling Ford a shove
Gonna coast just fars as I could
Commence a rolling.picking up speed
Come a hairpin turn.and I didn't make it
Man alive, I'm a telling you
The fiddles and guitars really flew
That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
Flew halfway around the world
Scattered wives and children
All over the side of that mountain
Got to California so dad-gum broke
So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd choke
I bummed up a spud or two
Wife fixed up some tater stew
We poured the kids full of it
Looked like a tribe of thy-mometers
arunning around
Lord, man, I swear to you
That was surely mighty thin stew
So damn thin I really mean
You could read a magizine
Right through it.look at the pictures too
Purty whiskey bottles.naked women
Always have thought, always figured
If that damn stew had been a little thinner
Some of these here politicians
Could of seen through it
@hardtimes
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- Album:
- American Radical Patriot
- Miscellaneous
- Classic Protest Songs
- Immortal Woody Guthrie Golden Classics, Part Two
- The Original Folkways Recordings: Pete Seeger, Woody...
- The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4
- Woody Guthrie, Pete SeegerAnd Leadbelly - The Original...
- The Very Best of Woody Guthrie
- Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Volume Two
- Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2
- Legend of American Folk Blues
- Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2 (Remastered)
- Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2
- Uncut: Tracks That Influenced Bob Dylan
- Dusty Bowl Ballads
- A Proper Introduction to Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your...
- Some Folk
- Dust Bowl Ballads
- The Beginning
- Woody Guthrie and American Folk Giants