Talking Dust Bowl
Talking Dust Bowl

Talking Dust Bowl easy guitar chords by Ramblin' Jack Elliott

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    • Verse 1

    Back 
    in 
    1927 
    I 

    had a little 
    farm 
    and I 
    call that 
    heaven 

    And the 
    price 
    is up and the 
    rain come 

    down and 
    I 
    hauled 
    my crops all 
    into town 

    I got 
    the 
    money 

    Bought 
    clothes 
    and groceries 

    and 
    I 
    rared back 

    Fed 
    the kids 
    and raised 

    me a 
    fam
    ily 

    The 
    rain 
    quit, 
    the 
    wind got 
    high 

    And a 
    black old 
    dust 
    storm filled 
    the sky 

    And I 
    swapped 
    my farm for 

    a forward 
    machine 

    And 
    I poured it 
    full of 
    this gas 

    I laid 
    and it started 

    Rock
    in' 
    and rollin' 

    Out 
    of 
    the dust bowl 

    And 
    across 
    the mountains 

    Way 
    over towards 
    that old 
    pizza 
    place 

    In 

    California 


    It was 
    way up 
    yonder 
    in a 
    mountain road 

    that had 
    a 
    hot motor 
    and 
    a heavy load 

    And 
    I was 
    goin' pretty 
    fast, 

    it wasn't even 
    stoppin' 

    Just a 
    -boun
    cin' up and 
    down like 
    popcorn, 

    poppin' 
    had a 
    break
    down 

    Kind of 
    a sort of 
    a 
    nervous 

    bust down 
    there 

    Some guy 
    was 
    a 
    feller there, 

    a 
    mechan
    ic feller

    They charged 
    me 13, 

    said it 
    was 
    in giant 
    bubbles. 

    Yeah, 
    way up 
    yonder 
    in a 

    mountain 
    road, 

    way high 
    up in 
    a piney 
    wood, 


    and they gave that 
    ford 
    a 
    rollin' 
    shove, 

    and 
    I was gonna 
    coast 

    as fur as 
    I could, 

    and com
    menced to 
    coast. 

    Pickin' 
    up speed 
    was 
    a 
    hairpin 
    turn. 

    I 
    didn't 
    make 
    it. 

    Man 
    alive, 
    I'm a 
    -tellin' 
    you that 

    bit
    tersweet 
    guitars 
    really 
    flew 

    That 
    fort took 
    off like 
    a blind 
    squirrel 
    and 
    it 

    flew halfway 
    around 
    the world 

    Scattered 
    wives 
    and 
    chil
    drens 
    all 

    over the side 
    of that 
    moun
    tain 

    We 
    got 
    out to the 
    west 
    coast 
    broke 
    so 

    Dad got 
    me hungry 

    I thought I'd 
    croak and 

    I bombed 
    up a 
    spud or 
    two 

    My 
    wife 
    fixed up 
    a 
    potato 
    stew 

    They 
    poured the 
    can full 
    of 
    it. 

    On 
    a 
    mighty 
    thin 
    stew though, 

    you could 
    read the 
    magazine 
    right 
    through 
    it. 

    I 
    always 
    have figured 
    that 
    if that stew'd 

    been 
    just 
    a little bit 
    thinner, 

    some of 
    them 
    there politicians 

    could 
    have seen 
    through it. 

    you 

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