{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1747594,"song":"Talking Dust Bowl Blues","artist":"Woody Guthrie","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1747594-talking-dust-bowl-blues-chords-by-woody-guthrie/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1747594?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":16,"content":"Talking Dust Bowl Blues\r\nLyrics and Music by Woody Guthrie\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack in nineteen twenty-seven,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI had a little farm and I called that heaven.[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, the prices up and the rain come down,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand I hauled my crops all into town.[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI got the money, bought clothes and groceries,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nfed the kids, and raised a family.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nRain quit and the wind got high,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand the black old dust storm filled the sky.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I swapped my farm for a Ford machine,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand I poured it full of this gas-o-line.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I started, rockin' an' a-rolling',[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nover the mountains, out towards the old Peach Bowl.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWay up yonder on a mountain road,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI had a hot motor and a heavy load,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nGot- a-goin' pretty fast, there wasn't even stopping',[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\na-bouncing up and down, like popcorn popping'.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHad a breakdown, sort of a nervous breakdown of some kind,[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthere was a feller there, a mechanic feller, said it was engine trouble.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWay up yonder on a mountain curve,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\na way up yonder in the piney wood,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI gave that rolling Ford a shove,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwas a-gonna coast as far as I could.[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCommence coasting, pickin' up speed,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwas a hairpin turn, I didn't make it.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMan alive, I'm a-tellin' you,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nthe fiddles and the guitars really flew.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat Ford took off like a flying squirrel[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand it flew halfway around the world,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nscattered wives and children[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nall over the side of that mountain.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe got out to the West Coast broke,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nso dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nso I bummed up a spud or two,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand my wife fixed up a tater stew.[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe poured the kids full of it, mighty thin stew, though,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nyou could read a magazine right through it.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlways have figured that if it'd been just a little bit thinner,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nsome of these here politicians could of seen through it.[/tab]","plain_text":"Talking Dust Bowl Blues\nLyrics and Music by Woody Guthrie\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]","chords":["A","D","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}