The Great Dust Storm-Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Great Dust Storm] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:America's Folk Idol No. 1, Vol.6] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie [00:03.21]On the 14th day of April of 1935 [00:09.74] [00:10.34]There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky [00:16.65] [00:17.17]You could see that dust storm comin' the cloud looked deathlike black [00:23.97]And through our mighty nation it left a dreadful track [00:30.18] [00:31.10]From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line [00:37.21] [00:37.79]Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande [00:44.20] [00:44.76]It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down [00:50.98] [00:51.73]We thought it was our judgement we thought it was our doom [00:57.80] [00:58.68]The radio reported we listened with alarm [01:04.59] [01:05.45]The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm [01:11.56] [01:12.45]From Albuquerque and Clovis and all New Mexico [01:18.52] [01:19.10]They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw [01:25.39] [01:26.21]From old Dodge City Kansas the dust had rung their knell [01:32.20] [01:32.77]And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill [01:39.00] [01:39.87]From Denver Colorado they said it blew so strong [01:46.25] [01:46.77]They thought that they could hold out but [01:50.19]They didn't know how long [01:52.98] [01:53.75]Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks [01:59.84] [02:00.51]And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks [02:06.50] [02:07.43]And the family it was crowded into their little room [02:13.51] [02:14.15]They thought the world had ended and [02:17.89]They thought it was their doom [02:20.45] [02:21.49]The storm took place at sundown it lasted through the night [02:27.16] [02:28.09]When we looked out next morning we saw a terrible sight [02:34.13] [02:34.98]We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown [02:40.99] [02:42.75]Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown [02:48.76] [02:49.62]It covered up our fences it covered up our barns [02:55.91] [02:56.55]It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm [03:02.75] [03:03.47]We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in [03:09.68] [03:10.30]We rattled down that highway to never come back again