Talking Dust Bowl Blues-Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger] [al:The First Rays of Protest in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger [00:04.32]Written by：Guthrie [00:08.64]Back in Nineteen Twenty Seven [00:10.79]I had a little farm and I called that heaven [00:12.85]Well the prices up and the rain come down [00:14.99]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:17.09]I got the money bought clothes and groceries [00:21.33] [00:21.96]Fed the kids and raised a family [00:24.44] [00:26.16]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:28.02]And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky [00:30.02]And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine [00:32.06]And I poured it full of this gas-i-line [00:34.30]And I started rockin' an' arollin' [00:37.91] [00:38.88]Over the mountains out towards the old Peach Bowl [00:42.60] [00:46.32]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:47.85]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:49.97]I's agoin' pretty fast there wasn't even stoppin' [00:52.33]Abouncin' up and down like popcorn poppin' [00:54.51]Had a breakdown sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind [00:59.25]There was a feller there a mechanic feller [01:01.18]Said it was engine trouble [01:03.85] [01:19.56]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:21.21]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:23.20]An' I give that rollin' Ford a shove [01:25.27]An' I's a gonna coast as far as I could [01:27.71] [01:28.88]Commence coastin' pickin' up speed [01:32.13] [01:32.83]Was a hairpin turn I didn't make it [01:37.17] [01:39.47]Man alive I'm atellin' you [01:41.23]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:43.19]That Ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:45.24]An' it flew halfway around the world [01:48.10]Scattered wives and children's [01:49.66]All over the side of that mountain [01:52.27] [02:00.98]We got out to the West Coast broke [02:02.75]So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak [02:04.61]An' I bummed up a spud or two [02:06.69]An' my wife fixed up a tater stew [02:09.33] [02:10.63]We poured the kids full of it [02:12.44] [02:14.80]Mighty thin stew though [02:16.07]You could read a magazine right through it [02:18.68] [02:21.39]Always have figured [02:22.58]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:25.31] [02:26.86]Some of these here politicians [02:29.19]Could seen through it