Talking Dust Bowl Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Dust Bowl Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Woody Guthrie Story (The Music)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Dust Bowl Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:08.78]Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven [00:10.77]I had a little farm and I called that heaven [00:12.89]Well the prices up and the rain come down [00:14.77]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:17.03]I got the money bought clothes and groceries [00:21.17] [00:21.91]Fed the kids and raised a family [00:24.26] [00:26.21]Rain quit and the wind got high [00:28.15]And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky [00:30.21]And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine [00:32.30]And I poured it full of this gas-i-line [00:34.76]And I started rockin' an' a-rollin' [00:37.77] [00:39.02]Over the mountains out towards the old Peach Bowl [00:42.23] [00:46.48]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:48.23]I had a hot motor and a heavy load [00:50.23]I's a-goin' pretty fast there wasn't even stoppin' [00:52.70]A-bouncin' up and down like popcorn poppin' [00:54.20] [00:54.87]Had a breakdown [00:55.90] [00:56.84]I'm sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind [00:59.77]There was a feller there a mechanic feller [01:01.82]Said it was en-gine trouble [01:03.93] [01:20.10]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:21.80]It's way up yonder in the piney wood [01:23.82]An' I give that rollin' Ford a shove [01:26.06]An' I's a-gonna coast as far as I could [01:27.95] [01:29.47]Commence coastin' pickin' up speed [01:32.42] [01:33.62]Was a hairpin turn I didn't make it [01:37.52] [01:40.18]Man alive I'm a-tellin' you [01:41.91]The fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:44.04]That Ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:46.09]An' it flew halfway around the world [01:48.16] [01:48.95]Scattered wives and childrens [01:50.49]All over the side of that mountain [01:52.78] [02:01.89]We got out to the West Coast broke [02:03.68]So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak [02:05.65]An' I bummed up a spud or two [02:07.63]An' my wife fixed up a tater stew [02:10.08] [02:11.59]We poured the kids full of it [02:13.69] [02:15.80]Mighty thin stew though [02:17.33]You could read a magazine right through it [02:19.58] [02:22.38]Always have figured [02:23.69]That if it'd been just a little bit thinner [02:25.94] [02:27.95]Some of these here politicians [02:30.35]Coulda seen through it