Dust Storm Disaster-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Dust Storm Disaster] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Taking Dust Bowl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dust Storm Disaster - Woody Guthrie [00:04.53]On the 14th day of April of 1935 [00:10.49] [00:11.03]There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky [00:17.19] [00:17.72]You could see that dust storm comin＇ [00:20.45]The cloud looked deathlike black [00:24.25]And through our mighty nation it left a dreadful track [00:30.22] [00:31.11]From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line [00:37.21] [00:37.74]Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande [00:44.43]It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down [00:51.14]We thought it was our judgement [00:54.51]We thought it was our doom [00:57.91]The radio reported we listened with alarm [01:04.54]The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm; [01:10.74] [01:11.34]From Albuquerque and Clovis and all New Mexico [01:17.43] [01:18.02]They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw [01:24.19] [01:24.73]From old Dodge City Kansas the dust had rung their knell [01:31.41]And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill [01:37.73] [01:38.29]From Denver Colorado they said it blew so strong [01:45.06]They thought that they could hold out [01:48.33]But they didn＇t know how long [01:51.87]Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks [01:57.98] [01:58.57]And the children they was cryin＇ [02:01.38]As it whistled through the cracks [02:04.58] [02:05.30]And the family it was crowded into their little room [02:11.57] [02:12.13]They thought the world had ended [02:14.85]And they thought it was their doom [02:18.17] [02:19.18]The storm took place at sundown [02:22.05]It lasted through the night [02:24.93] [02:25.55]When we looked out next morning [02:28.96]We saw a terrible sight [02:31.69] [02:32.27]We saw outside our window [02:35.73]Where wheat fields they had grown [02:38.84] [02:39.48]Was now a rippling ocean [02:43.35]Of dust the wind had blown [02:46.74]It covered up our fences [02:50.17]It covered up our barns [02:53.66]It covered up our tractors [02:56.51]In this wild and dusty storm [03:00.41]We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in [03:07.24]We rattled down that highway [03:10.59]To never come back again