Talking Columbia-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Columbia] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Columbia - Woody Guthrie [00:10.35]Well down along the river [00:10.97]Just a-sittin' on a rock [00:12.31]I'm a-lookin' at the boats [00:13.10]In the Bonneville lock [00:14.16] [00:14.90]Gate swings open [00:16.00]The boat sails in [00:16.82]Toot that whistle [00:17.46] [00:18.01]She's gone again [00:18.93] [00:19.72]Gasoline goin' up [00:20.49] [00:21.59]Wheat comin' down [00:22.37] [00:34.02]Well I filled up my hat brim [00:34.98]Drunk a little taste [00:36.14]Thought about a river [00:37.08]Just a-goin' to waste; [00:38.06]Thought about the dust [00:38.82]An' thought about the sand [00:40.05]Thought about the people [00:40.78]An' thought about the land [00:41.78] [00:43.10]Folks runnin' round [00:43.75]All over creation [00:44.75]Lookin' for some [00:45.26]Kind of little place [00:46.33] [00:54.55]Well I pulled out my pencil [00:55.54]Scribbled this song [00:56.57]Figured all them salmon [00:57.60]Just couldn't be wrong; [00:58.77]Them salmon fish [00:59.74]Is mighty shrewd [01:00.60] [01:01.29]They got senators [01:02.07]And politicians too [01:04.34]Just about like the president [01:05.14]They run every four years [01:06.48] [01:22.99]You just watch this river [01:23.85]Though pretty soon [01:24.78]Everybody's gonna be [01:25.45]Changin' their tune; [01:26.65]The big Grand Coulee and [01:28.07]The Bonneville dams [01:29.28]Run a thousand factories [01:30.26]For Uncle Sam [01:31.55]And everybody else [01:32.10]In the world Turnin' out [01:34.65]Everything from fertilizers [01:36.02]To sewing machines [01:37.15]And atomic bedrooms and plastic [01:40.19] [01:40.95]Everything's gonna be plastic [01:42.26] [02:00.04]Uncle Sam need houses [02:00.85]And stuff to eat [02:02.10]Uncle Sam needs wool [02:02.77]And Uncle Sam needs wheat [02:04.72]Uncle Sam needs [02:05.41]Water and power dams [02:06.50]Uncle Sam needs people [02:07.59]And the people need land [02:08.85] [02:10.42]'Course I don't like [02:11.20]Dictators none myself [02:13.00]But then I think the whole country [02:14.88]Had ought to be run by e-lec-trici-ty