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Talking Dust Bowl chords by
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Key: F major•
Verse 1
D
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D

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Eb
Eb
6

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Ab
Ab
4

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D

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G

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Back in 1927 I
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A

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A

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had a little farm and I call that heaven
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And the price is up and the rain come
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down and I hauled my crops all into town
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D

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I got the money
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G

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Bought clothes and groceries
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A

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and I rared back

Fed the kids and raised
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D

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D

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me a family
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The rain quit, the wind got high
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A

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And a black old dust storm filled the sky
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D

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And I swapped my farm for
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G

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a forward machine
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A

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And I poured it full of this gas

I laid and it started
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Rockin' and rollin'
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A

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Out of the dust bowl

And across the mountains
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D

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Way over towards that old pizza place

In
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D

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Bm
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California
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D

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It was way up yonder in a mountain road
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A

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that had a hot motor and a heavy load
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D

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And I was goin' pretty fast,
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G

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it wasn't even stoppin'
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A

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Just a -bouncin' up and down like popcorn,
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poppin' had a breakdown
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Kind of a sort of a nervous

bust down there
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Some guy was a feller there,
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a mechanic feller
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They charged me 13,
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said it was in giant bubbles.
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Yeah, way up yonder in a
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G

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mountain road,
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D

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way high up in a piney wood,

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G

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and they gave that ford a rollin' shove,
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A

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and I was gonna coast

as fur as I could,
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and commenced to coast.
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Pickin' up speed was a hairpin turn.
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I didn't make it.
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Man alive, I'm a -tellin' you that
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bittersweet guitars really flew
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That fort took off like a blind squirrel and it
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flew halfway around the world
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Scattered wives and childrens all
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over the side of that mountain
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We got out to the west coast broke so
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Dad got me hungry

I thought I'd croak and
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I bombed up a spud or two
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My wife fixed up a potato stew
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They poured the can full of it.
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On a mighty thin stew though,
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you could read the magazine right through it.
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I always have figured that if that stew'd
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been just a little bit thinner,

some of them there politicians
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could have seen through it.

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • G

  • Eb

    6

  • Ab

    4

  • A

  • E

  • Bm

    2

Capo: 3

Transpose: 0

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of Talking Dust Bowl by Ramblin' Jack Elliott is F major.

The primary chords used in Talking Dust Bowl are F, Bb, Gb, Cb, C, G.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 3 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like F, Bb, Gb, Cb, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of Talking Dust Bowl is approximately 56 beats per minute.

You can easily change the key of Talking Dust Bowl using our Transpose button located in the toolbar. This will automatically update all chord diagrams on the page to match your new key.

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