The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)-Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Greatest Folk Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) - Woody Guthrie [00:03.34]On the 14th day of April of 1935 [00:09.87] [00:10.39]There struck the worst of dust [00:12.70]Storms that ever filled the sky [00:16.64] [00:17.15]You could see that dust storm comin' [00:20.65]The cloud looked deathlike black [00:23.42] [00:23.95]And through our mighty nation [00:27.34]It left a dreadful track [00:30.04] [00:30.87]From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line [00:37.13] [00:37.72]Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande [00:43.86] [00:44.38]It fell across our city like [00:48.06]A curtain of black rolled down [00:51.13]We thought it was our judgement [00:54.64]We thought it was our doom [00:57.52] [00:58.17]The radio reported we listened with alarm [01:04.06] [01:04.69]The wild and windy actions of [01:08.27]This great mysterious storm; [01:10.87] [01:11.65]From Albuquerque and Clovis [01:14.93]And all New Mexico [01:17.72] [01:18.28]They said it was the blackest [01:21.69]That ever they had saw [01:24.60] [01:25.23]From old Dodge City Kansas [01:28.67]The dust had rung their knell [01:31.87]And a few more comrades sleeping [01:35.33]On top of old Boot Hill [01:38.18] [01:38.82]From Denver Colorado [01:42.29]They said it blew so strong [01:45.54]They thought that they could hold out [01:49.09]But they didn't know how long [01:51.88] [01:52.43]Our relatives were huddled into [01:56.54]Their oil boom shacks [01:58.51] [01:59.14]And the children they was cryin' [02:01.94]As it whistled through the cracks [02:05.09] [02:05.96]And the family it was crowded into [02:10.19]Their little room [02:12.15] [02:12.81]They thought the world had ended [02:15.94]And they thought it was their doom [02:19.46]The storm took place at sundown [02:22.84]It lasted through the night [02:25.40] [02:26.24]When we looked out next morning [02:29.55]We saw a terrible sight [02:32.32] [02:33.03]We saw outside our window [02:36.49]Where wheat fields they had grown [02:39.28] [02:40.86]Was now a rippling ocean of [02:44.37]Dust the wind had blown [02:46.79] [02:47.48]It covered up our fences [02:50.98]It covered up our barns [02:53.73] [02:54.43]It covered up our tractors [02:57.43]In this wild and dusty storm [03:01.27]We loaded our jalopies [03:04.49]And piled our families in [03:07.86]We rattled down that highway [03:11.30]To never come back again