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Talking Dust Bowl Blues

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Talking Dust Bowl Blues
Lyrics and Music by Woody Guthrie
[Verse 1]
   A                  D
Back in nineteen twenty-seven,
    E
I had a little farm and I called that heaven.
            A                D
Well, the prices up and the rain come down,
        E
and I hauled my crops all into town.
           A              D
I got the money, bought clothes and groceries,
 E                           A
fed the kids, and raised a family.
[Verse 2]
  A                 D
Rain quit and the wind got high,
          E
and the black old dust storm filled the sky.
        A                   D
And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine,
       E
and I poured it full of this gas-o-line.
        A                   D
And I started, rockin' an' a-rolling',
  E                                  A
over the mountains, out towards the old Peach Bowl.
[Verse 3]
 A                   D
Way up yonder on a mountain road,
         E
I had a hot motor and a heavy load,
     A                          D
Got- a-goin' pretty fast, there wasn't even stopping',
   E
a-bouncing up and down, like popcorn popping'.
        A         D
Had a breakdown, sort of a nervous breakdown of some kind,
            E                                            A
there was a feller there, a mechanic feller, said it was engine trouble.
[Verse 4]
 A                     D
Way up yonder on a mountain curve,
    E
a way up yonder in the piney wood,
    A                D
I gave that rolling Ford a shove,
     E                          A
was a-gonna coast as far as I could.
            D                   A
Commence coasting, pickin' up speed,
        E                      A
was a hairpin turn, I didn't make it.
[Verse 5]
   A                 D
Man alive, I'm a-tellin' you,
      E
the fiddles and the guitars really flew.
      A                           D
That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
        E
and it flew halfway around the world,
  A
scattered wives and children
              E              A
all over the side of that mountain.
[Verse 6]
  A                D
We got out to the West Coast broke,
       E
so dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak,
                   D
so I bummed up a spud or two,
        E                      A
and my wife fixed up a tater stew.
               D                A
We poured the kids full of it, mighty thin stew, though,
                 E               A
you could read a magazine right through it.
           D                    E                      A
Always have figured that if it'd been just a little bit thinner,
              E                               A
some of these here politicians could of seen through it.

Talking Dust Bowl Blues chords and lyrics

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Talking Dust Bowl Blues
Lyrics and Music by Woody Guthrie
[Verse 1]
[Verse 2]
[Verse 3]
[Verse 4]
[Verse 5]
[Verse 6]

Talking Dust Bowl Blues Chords by Woody Guthrie

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