Talking Dust Bowl-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:BD Folk: Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.26]Talking Dust Bowl - Woody Guthrie [00:01.02]Written by：Guthrie [00:02.09] [00:08.70]Back in nineteen twenty seven [00:10.45]I had a little farm and I called that heaven [00:12.70]Well the prices up and the rain come down [00:14.80]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:16.76]I got the money [00:17.59] [00:19.04]Bought clothes and groceries [00:21.01] [00:21.69]Fed the kids and raised a family [00:23.90] [00:25.93]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:27.76]And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky [00:29.78]And I swapped my farm for a ford machine [00:31.85]And I poured it full of this gas I line [00:34.26]And I started [00:34.85] [00:36.06]Rockin' an' a rollin' [00:37.37] [00:38.59]Over the mountains out towards the old peach bowl [00:41.92] [00:46.03]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:47.75]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:49.78]I's a goin' pretty fast there wasn't even stoppin' [00:52.05]A bouncin' up and down like popcorn poppin' [00:54.20]Had a breakdown [00:55.33] [00:56.15]And sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind [00:58.99]There was a feller there a mechanic feller [01:00.91]Said it was en gine trouble [01:03.06] [01:19.17]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:20.87]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:22.91]An' I give that rollin' ford a shove [01:24.85]An' I's a gonna coast as far as I could [01:27.23] [01:28.49]Commence coastin' [01:29.39] [01:30.28]Pickin' up speed [01:31.35] [01:32.66]Was a hairpin turn [01:33.83] [01:35.01]I didn't make it [01:36.39] [01:39.11]Man alive I'm a tellin' you [01:40.69]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:42.74]That ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:44.81]An' it flew halfway around the world [01:47.01] [01:47.82]Scattered wives and childrens [01:49.23]All over the side of that mountain [01:51.61] [02:00.56]We got out to the west coast broke [02:02.35]So dad gum hungry I thought I'd croak [02:04.16]An' I bummed up a spud or two [02:06.26]An' my wife fixed up a tater stew [02:08.42] [02:10.21]We poured the kids full of it [02:11.77] [02:14.35]Mighty thin stew though [02:15.77]You could read a magazine right through it [02:17.93] [02:20.95]Always have figured [02:22.11]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:24.33] [02:26.37]Some of these here politicians [02:28.48]Coulda seen through it