Talkin' Dust Bowl chords by
Country Joe Mcdonald

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Key: G major

Verse 1
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D D 
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Back in
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nineteen twenty seven
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I had a little farm, I called that Heaven.
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C C 
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The prices up and the rain come down
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And I hauled my crops all into town,
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I got the money
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Bought clothes and groceries
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Fed the kids and raised a big
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family.
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But the rain quit and

Verse 2
the wind got high
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A black old dust storm filled the sky.
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I traded my farm for a Ford machine
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Poured it full of this gasoline
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Started rocking and rolling
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Deserts and mountains to
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G G 
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California.
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D D 
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Way up yonder on a mountain road Hot

Verse 3
motor and a heavy load
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Go ing pretty fast I was
n't even stopping
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Bouncing up and down
like popcorn popping
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D D 
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G G 
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I had a breakdown ?
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Kind of a nervous bustdown.
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The mechanic fellow
there charged me five bucks,
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Said it was engine trouble.
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Way up yonder on

Verse 4
a mountain curve
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Way up yonder in the piney wood
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C C 
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I gave that rolling Ford a shove
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And I coast as far as I could
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Commencing rolling
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Picking up speed
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Come a hairpin turn and
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G G 
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I didn't make it.
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D D 
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No man alive I'm telling you That the fiddles

Verse 5
and the guitars really flew.
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That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
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And it flew halfway around the world
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Scattered the wives and children
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All over the side of that mountain.

Verse 6
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Got to California so dad gum broke
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Dad gum hungry that I thought I'd choke.
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I bummed up a spud or two
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D D 
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And a wife fixed up some 'tater stew.
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We poured the kids full of it
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Mighty skinny kids
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Looked like a tribe of thermo
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meters running around.
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No man I swear to you That

Verse 7
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was surely mighty thin stew
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So damn thin I really mean
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You could read a magazine right through it
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Look at the pictures, too
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Pretty whisky bottles an
d naked women.
Always have thought and
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always have figured
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That if that damn stew had been
just a little bit thinner
Some of these here politicians
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could have seen through it.

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