The Great Dust Storm-Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Great Dust Storm] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Woody Guthrie At His Best] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思里) [00:03.84]On the 14th day of April of 1935 [00:10.07] [00:10.91]There struck the worst of dust storms [00:14.45]That ever filled the sky [00:16.25] [00:17.81]You could see that dust storm comin' [00:20.63] [00:21.21]The cloud looked deathlike black [00:24.60]And through our mighty nation [00:27.42] [00:27.94]It left a dreadful track [00:30.22] [00:31.45]From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line [00:37.37] [00:38.15]Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande [00:43.84] [00:44.85]It fell across our city like a curtain [00:50.01]Of black rolled down [00:50.96] [00:51.66]We thought it was our judgement [00:54.45] [00:55.10]We thought it was our doom [00:57.14] [00:58.27]The radio reported [01:00.70] [01:01.86]We listened with alarm [01:03.77] [01:05.26]The wild and windy actions of [01:08.14]This great mysterious storm; [01:10.81] [01:12.10]From Albuquerque and Clovis [01:14.90] [01:15.49]And all New Mexico [01:17.59] [01:18.88]They said it was the blackest [01:21.55] [01:22.37]That ever they had saw [01:26.03]From old Dodge City Kansas [01:28.63] [01:29.14]The dust had rung their knell [01:31.26] [01:32.38]And a few more comrades sleeping [01:35.08] [01:35.90]On top of old Boot Hill [01:37.84] [01:39.09]From Denver Colorado [01:40.67] [01:43.59]They said it blew so strong [01:45.04] [01:45.87]They thought that they could hold out [01:49.65]But they didn't know how long [01:52.73]Our relatives were huddled [01:55.39] [01:56.14]Into their oil boom shacks [01:58.97] [01:59.62]And the children they was cryin' [02:01.77] [02:02.43]As it whistled through the cracks [02:05.46] [02:06.86]And the family it was crowded [02:09.11] [02:09.87]Into their little room [02:12.17] [02:13.24]They thought the world had ended [02:15.64] [02:16.34]And they thought it was their doom [02:19.60]The storm took place at sundown [02:22.41] [02:23.23]It lasted through the night [02:25.27] [02:26.47]When we looked out next morning [02:29.03] [02:31.20]We saw a terrible sight [02:32.41] [02:33.51]We saw outside our window [02:36.05] [02:36.80]Where wheat fields they had grown [02:38.94] [02:41.12]Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown [02:46.52] [02:47.90]It covered up our fences [02:50.48] [02:51.28]It covered up our barns [02:53.81] [02:54.72]It covered up our tractors [02:56.98] [02:57.81]In this wild and dusty storm [03:00.44] [03:01.74]We loaded our jalopies [03:03.84] [03:04.82]And piled our families in [03:07.53] [03:08.31]We rattled down that highway to / [03:12.19]Never come back again