The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)-Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Great Dust Storm (Dust Sto] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Dust Bowl Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) - Woody Guthrie [00:03.77]On the 14th day of April of 1935 [00:10.02] [00:10.77]There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky [00:16.46] [00:17.52]You could see that dust storm comin' the cloud looked deathlike black [00:23.46] [00:24.15]And through our mighty nation it left a dreadful track [00:30.09] [00:31.15]From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line [00:36.90] [00:37.90]Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande [00:43.71] [00:44.77]It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down [00:50.77] [00:51.46]We thought it was our judgement we thought it was our doom [00:57.59] [00:58.40]The radio reported we listened with alarm [01:03.90] [01:05.53]The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm; [01:10.90] [01:11.96]From Albuquerque and Clovis and all New Mexico [01:17.09] [01:18.58]They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw [01:24.65] [01:25.77]From old Dodge City Kansas the dust had rung their knell [01:31.32] [01:32.07]And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill [01:38.01] [01:39.07]From Denver Colorado they said it blew so strong [01:45.23] [01:45.91]They thought that they could hold out but they didn't know how long [01:51.79] [01:52.66]Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks [01:59.41]And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks [02:05.10] [02:06.16]And the family it was crowded into their little room [02:12.04] [02:12.98]They thought the world had ended and they thought it was their doom [02:18.98] [02:20.66]The storm took place at sundown it lasted through the night [02:25.66] [02:26.47]When we looked out next morning we saw a terrible sight [02:32.41] [02:33.35]We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown [02:39.41] [02:40.85]Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown [02:46.73] [02:47.73]It covered up our fences it covered up our barns [02:53.54] [02:54.60]It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm [03:00.29] [03:01.42]We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in [03:07.26] [03:08.26]We rattled down that highway to never come back again