The Great Dust Bowl Storm-Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Great Dust Bowl] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Great Dust Bowl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Dust Bowl Storm - Woody Guthrie [00:03.11]On the 14th day of April of 1935 [00:08.30] [00:10.25]There struck the worst of dust [00:12.54]Storms that ever filled the sky [00:15.90] [00:17.08]You could see that dust storm comin' [00:20.67]The cloud looked deathlike black [00:22.62] [00:23.91]And through our mighty nation [00:27.35]It left a dreadful track [00:29.59] [00:30.90]From Oklahoma City to [00:34.41]He Arizona line [00:36.55] [00:37.69]Dakota and Nebraska to [00:41.23]The lazy Rio Grande [00:44.47]It fell across our city like a curtain [00:49.05]Of black rolled down [00:51.38]We thought it was our judgement [00:54.62]We thought it was our doom [00:57.54] [00:58.41]The radio reported we listened with alarm [01:03.86] [01:05.01]The wild and windy actions of [01:08.55]This great mysterious storm; [01:10.65] [01:11.91]From Albuquerque and Clovis and all New Mexico [01:16.37] [01:18.71]They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw [01:23.78] [01:25.74]From old Dodge City Kansas [01:27.72] [01:28.93]The dust had rung their knell [01:31.40] [01:32.30]And a few more comrades [01:34.25]Sleeping on top of old Boot Hill [01:38.15] [01:39.14]From Denver Colorado [01:40.16] [01:42.52] they said it blew so strong [01:45.25]They thought that they could hold out [01:48.00] [01:48.80]But they didn't know how long [01:51.81] [01:52.97]Our relatives were huddled [01:55.85]Into their oil boom shacks [01:59.67]And the children they was cryin' as [02:02.82]It whistled through the cracks [02:05.23] [02:06.51]And the family it was crowded into their little room [02:12.02] [02:13.41]They thought the world had ended [02:15.39] [02:16.60]And they thought it was their doom [02:18.96] [02:20.48]The storm took place at sundown [02:22.08] [02:23.51]It lasted through the night [02:25.58] [02:26.96]When we looked out next morning [02:30.41] we saw a terrible sight [02:32.58] [02:33.83]We saw outside our window [02:37.27]Where wheat fields they had grown [02:39.30] [02:41.55]Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown [02:46.95] [02:48.31]It covered up our fences it covered up our barns [02:53.87] [02:55.27]It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm [03:00.62] [03:02.12]We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in [03:07.20] [03:08.95]We rattled down that [03:11.05]Highway to never come back again