Talking Dust Bowl chords by
Jack Elliott
Jack Elliott
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Key: G major
Verse 1
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D
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G

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Back in 1927
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C

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D
D

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I had a little farm
and I call that heaven
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G

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C
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And the prices up and the rain come down
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D

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And I hauled my crops all into town
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I got the money
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C

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D
D

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Bought clothes and groceries
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G

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D
D

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Rared back, fed the kids
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And raised me a family
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Verse 2
C
C

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Rain quit and the wind got high
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D

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And a black old dust storm filled the sky
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G

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And I swapped my farm for
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C

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a Ford machine
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D

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And I poured it full of this
gas- i- line
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G

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And it started
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Rocking and a- rolling
D
D

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Out of the Dust Bowl and across
the mountains
And away over toward
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G

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that old Peach Bowl
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California
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Verse 3
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G

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It was a- way up yonder
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on a mountain road
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I had a hot motor and a heavy load
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And I was going pretty fast
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And I wasn't even stopping
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D

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Just a- bouncing up and down like
popcorn popping
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G

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I had a breakdown
C
C

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Sort of a nervous bust down
there of some kind or other
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D

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There was a feller there
A mechanic feller
Charged me thirteen dollars
Said it was engine trouble
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Verse 4
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C

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Yeah, way up yonder on a mountain road
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A- way high up in a piney wood
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And I give that rolling Ford a shove
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And I was going to coast
as fair as I could
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Commenced to coasting
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Picking up speed
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D

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Was a hairpin turn
Verse 5
I didn't make it
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Man alive, I'm telling you
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D

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The fiddles 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 wives, childrens
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All over the side of that mountain
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Verse 6
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Well, we got out to the West Coast broke
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So dadgum hungry I 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 a magazine right through it
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Always I figured that if that stew
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had been just a little bit thinner
Some of them there politicians
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could've seen through it

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