The Great Dust Storm-Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Great Dust Storm] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie [00:03.49]On the 14th day of April of 1935 [00:10.11] [00:10.71]There struck the worst of dust storms [00:14.12]That ever filled the sky [00:16.89] [00:17.50]You could see that dust storm comin' [00:20.31] [00:21.02]The cloud looked deathlike black [00:23.85] [00:24.39]And through our mighty nation [00:27.11] [00:27.88]It left a dreadful track [00:30.58] [00:31.42]From Oklahoma City to [00:34.92]The Arizona line [00:37.41] [00:38.14]Dakota and Nebraska to [00:41.58]The lazy Rio Grande [00:44.38] [00:44.93]It fell across our city like [00:48.58]A curtain of black rolled down [00:51.20] [00:51.77]We thought it was our judgement [00:54.50] [00:55.33]We thought it was our doom [00:57.51] [00:58.51]The radio reported [01:01.36] [01:02.01]We listened with alarm [01:04.69] [01:05.36]The wild and windy actions of [01:08.93]This great mysterious storm; [01:11.06] [01:12.19]From Albuquerque and Clovis [01:15.81]And all New Mexico [01:18.40] [01:19.11]They said it was the blackest [01:21.86] [01:22.55]That ever they had saw [01:25.37] [01:26.00]From old Dodge City Kansas [01:28.72] [01:29.33]The dust had rung their knell [01:32.10] [01:32.62]And a few more comrades sleeping [01:36.13]On top of old Boot Hill [01:38.85] [01:39.54]From Denver Colorado [01:42.21] [01:42.74]They said it blew so strong [01:45.70] [01:46.25]They thought that they could hold out [01:49.86]But they didn't know how long [01:52.60] [01:53.18]Our relatives were huddled into [01:57.48]Their oil boom shacks [01:59.51] [02:00.02]And the children they was cryin' as [02:03.35]It whistled through the cracks [02:06.26] [02:07.00]And the family it was crowded into [02:10.46] [02:11.09]Their little room [02:13.06] [02:13.65]They thought the world had ended [02:17.01]And they thought it was their doom [02:19.88] [02:20.42]The storm took place at sundown [02:23.29] [02:23.92]It lasted through the night [02:26.49] [02:27.11]When we looked out next morning [02:30.10] [02:30.61]We saw a terrible sight [02:33.53] [02:34.05]We saw outside our window [02:36.99] [02:37.52]Where wheat fields they had grown [02:40.41] [02:41.96]Was now a rippling ocean of dust [02:46.16]The wind had blown [02:48.04] [02:48.68]It covered up our fences [02:51.52] [02:52.16]It covered up our barns [02:54.93] [02:55.58]It covered up our tractors in [02:59.06]This wild and dusty storm [03:01.81] [03:02.38]We loaded our jalopies [03:05.15] [03:05.73]And piled our families in [03:09.19]We rattled down that [03:11.21]Highway to never come back again