Talking Columbia-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Columbia] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Bob Dylan's Woody Guthrie Selection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Columbia - Woody Guthrie [00:10.07]Well down along the river just asittin' on a rock [00:11.99]I'm alookin' at the boats in the Bonneville lock [00:14.60]Gate swings open the boat sails in [00:16.34]Toot that whistle she's gone again [00:19.26]Gasoline goin' up wheat comin' down [00:30.76] [00:33.66]Well I filled up my hat brim [00:35.12]Drunk a little taste [00:36.08]Thought about a river just agoin' to waste [00:37.87]Thought about the dust [00:38.76]An' thought about the sand [00:39.95]Thought about the people [00:40.82]An' thought about the land [00:42.78]Folks runnin' round all over creation [00:43.89] [00:44.59]Lookin' for some kind of little place [00:46.43] [00:54.19]Well I pulled out my pencil [00:55.31]Scribbled this song [00:56.28]Figured all them salmon just [00:57.55]Couldn't be wrong [00:58.50]Them salmon fish is mighty shrewd [00:59.98] [01:00.97]They got senators and politicians too [01:04.00]Just about like the president [01:05.14]They run every four years [01:08.15] [01:22.56]You just watch this river though pretty soon [01:24.49]Everybody's gonna be changin' their tune [01:26.44]The big Grand Coulee and the Bonneville dams [01:28.93]Run a thousand factories for uncle sam [01:31.21]And everybody else in the world turnin' out [01:34.13]Everything from fertilizers to sewing machines [01:37.22]And atomic bedrooms and plastic [01:40.49]Everything's gonna be plastic [01:44.62] [01:59.72]Uncle sam need houses and stuff to eat [02:01.69]Uncle sam needs wool and uncle sam needs wheat [02:03.73] [02:04.30]Uncle sam needs water and power dams [02:06.24]Uncle sam needs people and the people need land [02:09.97]'Course I don't like dictators none myself [02:11.34] [02:12.73]But then I think the whole country [02:14.46]Had ought to be run by electricity