Talking Dust Bowl Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Machinest] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:09.38]Back in nineteen twenty seven [00:11.11]I had a little farm [00:12.32]And I called it heaven [00:13.44]Prices up and the rain come down [00:15.45]I hauled my crops all into town [00:17.57]Got the money [00:18.43] [00:19.86]Bought clothes and groceries [00:21.37] [00:22.38]Fed the kids [00:23.39]And raised a family [00:24.59] [00:26.66]But the rain quit [00:27.62]And the wind got high [00:28.72]Black old dust storm [00:29.50]Filled the sky [00:30.35]I traded my farm for a ford machine [00:32.45]Poured it full of this gasiline [00:34.81]And started [00:35.56] [00:36.75]Rocking and a rolling [00:37.99] [00:39.35]Over the mountains [00:40.16]Out towards the old peach bowl [00:42.44] [00:46.85]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:48.42]Hot motor and a heavy load [00:50.45]Going purty fast [00:51.57]Wasn't even stopping [00:52.96]Bouncing up [00:53.42]And down like popcorn apopping [00:55.16]Had a breakdown [00:56.15] [00:56.99]Sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind [00:59.88]There was a feller there [01:00.89]A mechanic feller [01:02.03]Said it was engine trouble [01:03.88] [01:20.20]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:21.75]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:23.92]And I give that rolling [01:24.94]Ford a shove [01:25.87]And I's gonna coast [01:26.78]As far as I could [01:27.94] [01:29.28]Commence coasting [01:30.18] [01:31.32]Picking up speed [01:32.15] [01:33.56]Was a hairping turn [01:34.64] [01:35.89]I didn't make it [01:37.32] [01:39.99]Man alive [01:40.54]I'm a telling you [01:41.60]The fiddles [01:42.17]And the guitars really flew [01:43.73]That ford took off [01:44.70]Like a flying squirrel [01:45.89]And it flew halfway around the world [01:47.78] [01:48.74]Scattered wives and childrens [01:50.39]All over the side of that mountain [01:52.38] [02:01.57]We got out to the west coast broke [02:03.29]So dad gum hungry [02:04.26]I thought I'd croak [02:05.43]And I bummed up a spud or two [02:07.29]And my wife fixed up a tater stew [02:09.27] [02:11.24]We poured the kids full of it [02:13.00] [02:15.42]Mighty thin stew though [02:17.14]You could read a magazine right [02:18.87]Through it [02:19.34] [02:21.97]Always have figured [02:23.29]That if it'd been [02:24.19]Just a little bit thinner [02:25.37] [02:27.38]Some of these here politicians [02:28.84] [02:29.82]Coulda seen through it