Talking Dust Bowl Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Dust Can't Kill Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.02]Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:08.33]Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven [00:09.94]I had a little farm and I called that heaven [00:12.48]Well the prices up and the rain come down [00:14.39]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:16.37]I got the money bought clothes and groceries [00:20.18] [00:21.32]Fed the kids and raised a family [00:23.47] [00:25.59]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:27.67]And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky [00:29.80]And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine [00:31.80]And I poured it full of this gas-i-line [00:33.60]And I started rockin' an a-rollin' [00:36.87] [00:38.36]Over the mountains out towards the old Peach Bowl [00:41.60] [00:45.94]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:47.57]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:49.73]I's a-goin' pretty fast there wasn't even stoppin' [00:51.78]A-bouncin' up and down like popcorn poppin' [00:54.35]Had a breakdown sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind [00:59.00]There was a feller there a mechanic feller [01:00.72]Said it was en-gine trouble [01:03.06] [01:19.36]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:21.10]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:23.05]An' I give that rollin' Ford a shove [01:25.02]An' I's a-gonna coast as far as I could [01:27.25] [01:28.62]Commence coastin' pickin' up speed [01:31.52] [01:32.93]Was a hairpin turn I didn't make it [01:36.66] [01:39.30]Man alive I'm a-tellin' you [01:41.02]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:43.09]That Ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:45.08]An' it flew halfway around the world [01:47.16] [01:48.18]Scattered wives and childrens [01:49.72]All over the side of that mountain [01:51.64] [02:01.04]We got out to the West Coast broke [02:02.96]So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak [02:04.93]An' I bummed up a spud or two [02:06.87]An' my wife fixed up a tater stew [02:08.95] [02:10.59]We poured the kids full of it [02:12.39] [02:14.79]Mighty thin stew though [02:16.06]You could read a magazine right through it [02:18.49] [02:21.35]Always have figured [02:22.66]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:25.09] [02:27.02]Some of these here politicians [02:28.69] [02:29.30]Coulda seen through it [02:30.56]