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Lyrics for Talking Dust Bowl Blues by Guthrie Woody:
| | | Artist: | Guthrie Woody |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | Talking Dust Bowl Blues | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 56 | | | | Lyrics: | 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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