Talking Dust Bowl Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Greatest Folk Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:08.65]Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven [00:10.58]I had a little farm and I called that heaven [00:12.85]Well the prices up and the rain come down [00:14.80]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:16.89]I got the money [00:17.82] [00:19.15]Bought clothes and groceries [00:20.83] [00:21.66]Fed the kids [00:22.59]And raised a family [00:24.11] [00:25.87]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:27.61]And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky [00:29.88]And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine [00:31.99]And I poured it full of this gas-i-line [00:34.09]And I started rockin' an' a-rollin' [00:37.53] [00:38.53]Over the mountains [00:39.50]Out towards the old Peach Bowl [00:42.29] [00:46.10]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:47.70]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:49.77]I's a-goin' pretty fast [00:51.09]There wasn't even stoppin' [00:52.12]A-bouncin' up and down [00:52.93]Like popcorn poppin [00:54.27]Had a breakdown [00:55.41] [00:56.18]I'm sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind [00:58.98]There was a feller there [01:00.13]A mechanic feller [01:01.10]Said it was en-gine trouble [01:03.25] [01:19.27]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:21.04]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:23.05]An' I give that rollin' Ford a shove [01:25.11]An' I's a-gonna coast as far as I could [01:27.45] [01:28.62]Commence coastin' pickin' up speed [01:31.55] [01:32.76]Was a hairpin turn I didn't make it [01:36.83] [01:39.16]Man alive I'm a-tellin' you [01:40.97]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:42.98]That Ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:45.20]An' it flew halfway around the world [01:48.05]Scattered wives and childrens [01:49.52]All over the side of that mountain [01:52.04] [02:00.71]We got out to the West Coast broke [02:02.51]So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak [02:04.45]An' I bummed up a spud or two [02:06.46]An' my wife fixed up a tater stew [02:08.88] [02:10.39]We poured the kids full of it [02:12.26] [02:14.51]Mighty thin stew though [02:16.25]You could read a magazine right through it [02:18.26] [02:21.06]Always have figured [02:22.44]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:24.78] [02:26.49]Some these here politicians [02:28.93]Coulda seen through it