Key: G major
Verse 1
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Back in 1927 I had a little
farm
and they called that heaven
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Bought clothes and groceries,
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and raised me a family.
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and swapped my farm for a ford machine
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and a rollin' out of the dust bowl
and across the mountains
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in California.
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There was a way up
and up and down like popcorn poppin'.
there of some kind or other.
a mechanic feller,
charged me 13 dollars,
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said he was in giant trouble.
Yeah, way up yonder in a
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and he gives that rolling ford a shove,
as far as I could.
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It was a hairpin turn, I didn't make it
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Man alive, I'm tellin' you,
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That four took off like a flyin' squirrel
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all over the side by the fire
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Well, we got out to the west coast broke,
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and I bummed up a spud or two.
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we poured the kids full of it.
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It was a mighty thin stew though,
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Always have figured that if that
some of them there politicians
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could have seen through.
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