Talking Dust Bowl Blues chords by
Jack Elliott
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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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and the price was up
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and the rain come down
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and I hauled my crops all into town
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and got the money.
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Bought clothes and groceries,
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reared back,
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fed the kids
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and raised me a family.
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Rain quit and the wind got high
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and a black old dust storm filled the sky
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and swapped my farm for a ford machine
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and I poured it full of this gas
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I leaned and started rockin'
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and a rollin' out of the dust bowl
and across the mountains
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and way over towards that old peach bowl
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in California.
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There was a way up
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yonder in a mountain road
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that had a hot motor and a heavy load
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and I was goin' pretty fast
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and there wasn't even
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stoppages to bounce
and up and down like popcorn poppin'.
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Had a break now.
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Sort of a nervous bust down
there of some kind or other.
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There was a feller there,
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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mountain road,
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way high up in a piney wood,
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and he gives that rolling ford a shove,
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and I was gonna coast
as far as I could.
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Commenced to coastin',
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pickin' up speed.
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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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the fiddles and the guitars really flew
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That four took off like a flyin' squirrel
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and it flew halfway around the world
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Scattered wives and childrens
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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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said dad gum hungry, thought I'd croak,
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and I bummed up a spud or two.
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My wife fixed up a tater stew,
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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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you could read the magazine right through.
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Always have figured that if that
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stew had been just a little bit thinner,
some of them there politicians
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could have seen through.

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