Talking Dust Bowl Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:08.59]Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven [00:10.73]I had a little farm and I called that heaven [00:12.84]Well the prices up and the rain come down [00:14.98]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:17.08]I got the money bought clothes and groceries [00:20.94] [00:21.82]Fed the kids and raised a family [00:23.96] [00:26.10]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:28.08]And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky [00:30.19]And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine [00:32.26]And I poured it full of this gas-i-line [00:34.77]And I started rockin' an' a-rollin' [00:37.76] [00:38.91]Over the mountains out towards the old Peach Bowl [00:42.13] [00:46.42]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:48.22]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:50.31]I's a-goin' pretty fast there wasn't even stoppin' [00:52.61]A-bouncin' up and down like popcorn poppin' [00:54.86]Had a breakdown sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind [00:59.73]There was a feller there a mechanic feller [01:01.51]Said it was en-gine trouble [01:04.00] [01:19.97]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:21.73]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:23.78]An' I give that rollin' Ford a shove [01:25.85]An' I's a-gonna coast as far as I could [01:27.94] [01:29.38]Commence coastin' pickin' up speed [01:32.22] [01:33.58]Was a hairpin turn I didn't make it [01:37.39] [01:40.08]Man alive I'm a-tellin' you [01:41.85]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:43.98]That Ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:46.06]An' it flew halfway around the world [01:47.98] [01:49.03]Scattered wives and childrens [01:50.38]All over the side of that mountain [01:53.05] [02:01.76]We got out to the West Coast broke [02:03.71]So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak [02:05.63]An' I bummed up a spud or two [02:07.64]An' my wife fixed up a tater stew [02:09.60] [02:11.52]We poured the kids full of it [02:13.27] [02:15.67]Mighty thin stew though [02:17.33]You could read a magazine right through it [02:19.48] [02:22.34]Always have figured [02:23.74]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:25.88] [02:27.81]Some of these here politicians [02:30.28]Coulda seen through it [02:31.38]