Talking Dust Bowl Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Great Dust Bowl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:08.12]Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven [00:10.16]I had a little farm and I called that heaven [00:12.39]Well the prices up and the rain come down [00:14.46]And I hauled my crops all into town -- [00:16.51]I got the money bought clothes [00:19.42]And groceries [00:21.30]Fed the kids and raised a family [00:24.16] [00:25.52]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:27.51]And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky [00:29.56]And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine [00:31.70]And I poured it full of this gas-i-line -- [00:34.05]And I started rockin' an' a-rollin' [00:36.92] [00:38.28]Over the mountains out towards [00:39.69]The old Peach Bowl [00:41.30] [00:45.88]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:47.05] [00:47.56]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:49.72]I's a-goin' pretty fast [00:50.96]There wasn't even stoppin' [00:51.79]A-bouncin' up and down [00:52.65]Like popcorn poppin' -- [00:54.35]Had a breakdown sort of a nervous [00:57.37]Bustdown of some kind [00:58.96]There was a feller there a mechanic feller [01:00.73]Said it was en-gine trouble [01:03.01] [01:19.25]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:21.08]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:23.06]An' I give that rollin' Ford a shove [01:24.97]An' I's a-gonna coast as far as I could -- [01:27.38] [01:28.65]Commence coastin' pickin' up speed [01:31.06] [01:32.88]Was a hairpin turn I didn't make it [01:36.86] [01:39.25]Man alive I'm a-tellin' you [01:40.96]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:43.03]That Ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:44.58] [01:45.09]An' it flew halfway around the world -- [01:47.65] [01:48.29]Scattered wives and childrens [01:49.31]All over the side of that mountain [01:51.82] [02:00.88]We got out to the West Coast broke [02:02.67]So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak [02:04.48]An' I bummed up a spud or two [02:06.66]An' my wife fixed up a tater stew -- [02:08.95] [02:10.71]We poured the kids full of it [02:11.98] [02:14.77]Mighty thin stew though [02:16.01]You could read a magazine right through it [02:18.52] [02:21.37]Always have figured [02:22.78]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:25.32] [02:26.96]Some of these here politicians [02:29.26]Coulda seen through it