Talking Columbia Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Columbia Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:GUTHRIE, Woody: Pastures of Plenty (1940-1947)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.43]Talking Columbia Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:01.50]Written by：Woody Guthrie [00:02.46] [00:11.19]Well down along the river just asittin' on a rock [00:13.08]I'm a lookin' at the boats in the Bonneville lock [00:15.10] [00:15.76]Gate swings open the boat sails in [00:17.80]Toot that whistle she's gone again [00:19.56] [00:20.47]Gasoline goin' up wheat comin' down [00:23.21] [00:35.04]Well I filled up my hat brim [00:36.38]Drunk a little taste [00:37.15]Thought about a river just a goin' to waste [00:39.02]Thought about the dust [00:39.94]An' thought about the sand [00:40.98]Thought about the people [00:41.80]An' thought about the land [00:42.87] [00:44.11]Folks runnin' round all over creation [00:45.94]Lookin' for some kind of little place [00:47.47] [00:55.65]Well I pulled out my pencil [00:56.85]Scribbled this song [00:57.76]Figured all them salmon just [00:59.17]Couldn't be wrong [00:59.94]The salmon fish is mighty shrewd [01:01.61] [01:02.50]They got senators and politicians too [01:04.24] [01:05.57]Just about like the president [01:06.64]They run every four years [01:07.78] [01:24.36]You just watch this river though pretty soon [01:25.95]Everybody's gonna be changin' their tune [01:28.14]The big grand coulee and the Bonneville dams [01:29.85] [01:30.65]Run a thousand factories for Uncle Sam [01:33.01]And everybody else in the world turnin' out [01:35.83]Everything from fertilizers to sewing machines [01:38.63]And atomic bedrooms and plastic [01:41.40] [01:42.28]Everything's gonna be plastic [01:43.58] [02:01.68]Uncle Sam need houses and stuff to eat [02:03.51]Uncle Sam needs wool and Uncle Sam needs wheat [02:05.45] [02:06.20]Uncle Sam needs water and power dams [02:08.05]Uncle Sam needs people and the people need land [02:10.28] [02:12.09]'Course I don't like dictators none myself [02:14.73]But then I think the whole country [02:16.28]Had ought to be run by electricity