Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Version)-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Version)] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Greatest Folk Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Version) - Woody Guthrie [00:08.85]Back in Nineteen Twenty Seven [00:10.78]I had a little farm [00:11.91]And I called that heaven [00:12.89]Well the prices up [00:14.04]And the rain come down [00:15.18]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:16.91]I got the money [00:17.80] [00:19.14]Bought clothes and groceries [00:20.72] [00:22.58]Fed the kids and raised a family [00:24.66] [00:25.92]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:28.16]And the black old dust storm [00:29.56]Filled the sky [00:30.22]And I swapped my farm [00:31.24]For a Ford machine [00:32.28]And I poured it full of this gasiline [00:34.50]And I started rocking and rolling [00:37.42]Over the mountains [00:38.33]Tking steps the light that to California [00:41.05] MUSIC [00:51.33]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:53.34]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:55.15]It's going pretty fast [00:56.41]There wasn't even stopping [00:57.50]A bouncing up and down [00:58.42]Like popcorn popping [00:59.64]Had a breakdown [01:00.42] [01:01.69]Sometimes of a nervous bustdown of some kind [01:04.27]There was a feller there [01:05.22]A mechanic feller [01:05.87]Said it was engine trouble [01:08.02] [01:10.53]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:12.55]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:14.48]And I give that rolling Ford a shove [01:16.56]And I was gonna coast as far as I could [01:18.68] [01:19.76]Commence rolling [01:20.72] [01:21.83]Picking up speed [01:22.98] [01:24.05]Was a hairpin turn [01:25.82]And I didn't make it [01:27.93] [01:30.44]Man alive I'm telling you [01:32.50]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:34.35]That Ford took off [01:35.49]Like a flying squirrel [01:36.67]And it flew halfway around the world [01:38.72] [01:39.91]Scattered wives and childrens [01:41.24]All over the side of that mountain [01:43.60] [01:45.35]We got out to the West Coast broke [01:47.50]So that gum hungry I thought I'd croak [01:49.40]And I bummed up a spud or two [01:51.35]And my wife fixed up a tater stew [01:53.56] [01:54.77]And we poured the kids full of it [01:56.76] [01:57.39]Like a farmer whose running around [01:59.55]Let's do this thing [02:00.92] [02:02.78]You could read a magazine [02:03.91]Right through it [02:04.48] [02:08.12]Always have figured [02:09.07]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:11.10] [02:13.12]Some of these here politicians [02:15.54]Could a seen through it