Washington Talkin' Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Washington Talkin' Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:BD Folk: Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.70]Washington Talkin' Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:01.72]Written by：Guthrie [00:02.57] [00:09.46]Long about nineteen twentynine [00:11.12]I owned a little farm was a doin' just fine [00:13.26] [00:15.53]Raised a little row crop raised some wheat [00:17.29]Sold it over at the County seat [00:19.15] [00:20.54]Drawed the money [00:21.36] [00:22.59]Raised a family [00:23.41] [00:26.42]Dust came along [00:27.22]And the price went down [00:28.18]Didn't have the money when the bank come around [00:30.23] [00:31.82]Tumble weeds and the black dust blowed [00:33.34]So we hit the trail to where the waters floed [00:35.40] [00:37.28]Way out across yonder somewhere [00:39.30] [00:41.78]Hot old rocks and the desert sand [00:43.28]Made my mind run back to the dust bowl land [00:45.53] [00:46.65]Hopes was high and we rolled along [00:48.12]To the Columbia River up in Washington [00:50.14] [00:51.51]Lots of good rain [00:52.40] [00:53.53]Little piece of land [00:54.37] [00:55.56]Feller might grow something [00:56.47] [00:58.86]We settled down on some cut over land [01:00.47]Pulled up brush and the stumps by hand [01:02.67] [01:03.43]Hot sun burnt up my first crop of wheat [01:05.53]And the river down the canyon just 500 feet [01:07.74] [01:09.38]Might as we of been 50 miles [01:11.06] [01:12.24]Couldn't get no water [01:13.09] [01:15.01]We loaded our belongings and we lit out for town [01:16.93]Seen the old vacant houses and farms all around [01:19.92] [01:21.43]Folks a leaving out [01:22.09]If you're asking me [01:23.09]That's as lonesome as sight as a feller can see [01:25.52] [01:27.54]Good land [01:28.06] [01:30.11]Grow anything you plant [01:31.15]Get the moisture [01:32.15] [01:35.94]I struck a lumber town and heard the big saw sing [01:38.10]And when business is good why lumber's king [01:40.39] [01:42.09]I went to lookin' for a job but the man said no [01:44.53]So we hit the skids on the old skid row [01:46.68] [01:47.25]Traipsing up and down [01:48.31] [01:50.39]Chasing a bite to eat [01:51.27] [01:53.41]Kids hungry [01:54.04] [01:57.65]Heard about a job so we hit the wheat [01:59.36]Made about enough for the kids to eat [02:01.37]Picked in the berries gathered in the fruit [02:03.36]Hops peaches and the apples too [02:05.19] [02:06.19]Slept in just about everything [02:08.03] [02:08.98]Except a good warm bed [02:11.53] [02:14.16]Been to Arizona been to California too [02:16.36] [02:18.31]Found the people was plenty but the jobs was few [02:20.89] [02:22.93]Well maybe it's just like the feller said [02:25.06]When they ain't enough arok well business is dead [02:27.66] [02:29.47]Sorta ailin' [02:30.09] [02:32.29]Ain't no money a changin' hands [02:33.89] [02:35.94]Just people changing places [02:37.75] [02:39.96]Folks wastin gasoline a'chasin' around [02:41.88] [02:45.76]Now what we need is a great big dam [02:47.64]To throw a lot of water out acrost that land [02:49.73] [02:51.41]People could work and the stuff would grow [02:53.18]And you could wave goodbye to the old Skid Row [02:56.00] [02:57.76]Can't get job [02:58.54] [02:59.92]Work hard [03:00.41] [03:01.89]Raise all kinds of stuff [03:03.14] [03:05.23]Kids too [03:05.79] [03:08.21]Take it easy