Key: F major
Verse 1
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Back in 1927 I
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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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I got the money
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Bought clothes and groceries
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and I rared back
Fed the kids and raised
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me a family
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The rain quit, the wind got high
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And a black old dust storm filled the sky
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And I swapped my farm for
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a forward machine
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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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Out of the dust bowl
And across the mountains
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Way over towards that old pizza place
In
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California
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It was way up 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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it wasn't even stoppin'
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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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mountain road,
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way high up in a piney wood,
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and they gave that ford a rollin' shove,
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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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