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Verse 1
(G major) (C major) (D major) (G major) Back in 1927 (C major) I (D major) had a little
farm
and they called that heaven
and the (G major) price was up
and the (C major) rain come down
and I (D major) hauled my crops all into town
and got the (G major) money.
Bought (C major) clothes and groceries, (D major)
(G major) reared back,
(D major) fed the kids
and raised me a fam (G major) ily. (C major) (D major) (G major)
Rain quit and the (C major) wind got high
and a (D major) black old dust storm filled the sky
and (G major) swapped my farm for a (C major) ford machine
and I (D major) poured it full of this gas
I leaned and started rockin' (G major)
(C major) and a rollin' (G major) out of the (D major) dust bowl
and across the mountains
and way over towards that old peach (G major) bowl
in (C major) California. (D major) (G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
There was a way up
(C major) yonder in a mountain road
that had a (D major) hot motor and a heavy load
and I was goin' pretty (G major) fast
and there (C major) wasn't even
stoppages to (D major) bounce
and up and down like popcorn poppin'.
Had a (G major) break now.
(C major) Sort of a nervous bust down
there of some kind or other.
There was a (D major) feller there,
a mechanic feller,
charged me 13 dollars,
said he was in giant trouble. (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
Yeah, way up yonder in a
(C major) mountain road,
(D major) way high up in a piney wood,
and he (G major) gives that rolling (C major) ford a shove,
and (D major) I was gonna coast
as far as I could.
Commenced to (G major) coastin',
pick (C major) in' up speed.
It was (G major) a (D major) hairpin turn, I didn't make it
(G major) Man alive, I'm (C major) tellin' you,
the (D major) fiddles and the guitars really flew
That (G major) four took off like a (C major) flyin' squirrel
and it (D major) flew halfway around the world
Scattered wives (G major) and childrens
(C major) all over the (D major) side by the fire (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major) (C major)
(D major)
(G major) Well, we got out to the west (C major) coast broke,
said (D major) dad gum hungry, thought I'd croak,
and (G major) I bummed up a (C major) spud or two.
(D major) My wife fixed up a tater stew,
we (G major) poured the (C major) kids full of it. (D major)
(G major) It was a (D major) mighty thin stew though,
you could read the magazine right through. (G major)
(D major) Always (A minor) have figured (C major) that if that
stew had been just a little bit thinner, (D major)
some of them there politicians
could have seen through. (A major) (D major) (G major)
Talking Dust Bowl Blues
Jack Elliott
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