Talking Dust Bowl chords by Ramblin' Jack Elliott

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Verse 1
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 (D major) Back in 1927  (G major) I
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 (A major) had a little  (E major) farm and I  (A major) call that heaven
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And the  (D major) price is up and the  (G major) rain come
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down and I  (A major) hauled my crops all into town
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I got the  (D major) money
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Bought  (G major) clothes and groceries
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and I  (A major) rared back
Fed the kids and raised
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me a fam (D major) ily  (G major)  (A major)  (D major) 
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The rain quit, the  (G major) wind got high
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And a  (A major) black old dust storm filled the sky
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And I  (D major) swapped my farm for
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 (G major) a forward machine
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And  (A major) I poured it full of this gas
I laid and it started
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 (D major) Rock (G major) in' and rollin'
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Out  (A major) of the dust bowl
And across the mountains
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Way over towards that old  (D major) pizza place
In
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 (G major) California  (A major)  (D major)  (B minor)  (D major) 
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It was way up yonder in a  (G major) mountain road
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that had a  (A major) hot motor and a heavy load
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And I was  (D major) goin' pretty fast,
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 (G major) it wasn't even stoppin'
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Just a  (D major) -bouncin' up and  (A major) down like popcorn,
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 (E major) poppin'  (A major) had a  (D major) breakdown
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Kind of a sort of a  (G major) nervous
bust down there
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Some guy was a  (A major) feller there,
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a mechan (E major) ic feller (A major) 
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They charged me 13,  (D major) 
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said it was  (G major) in giant bubbles.  (A major)  (D major)  (G major)  (A major) 
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 (D major) Yeah, way up yonder in a
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 (G major) mountain road,
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 (A major) way high up in a piney  (D major) wood,
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and they gave that ford a  (G major) rollin' shove,
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and  (A major) I was gonna  (E major) coast
as fur as I could,
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and com (A major) menced to  (D major) coast.
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Pickin' up speed  (G major) was a  (A major) hairpin turn.
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I didn't  (D major) make it.  (G major)  (A major) 
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 (D major) Man alive, I'm a  (G major) -tellin' you that
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 (A major) bittersweet guitars really flew
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That  (D major) fort took off like  (G major) a blind squirrel and it
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 (A major) flew halfway around  (E major) the world
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Scattered  (D major) wives and chil (G major) drens all
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 (A major) over the side of that  (D major) mountain  (G major)  (A major)  (D major) 
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We got out to the west  (G major) coast broke so
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 (A major) Dad got me hungry
I thought I'd croak and
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 (D major) I bombed up a  (G major) spud or two
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My  (A major) wife fixed up a potato stew  (D major) 
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They poured the  (G major) can full of it.
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On a  (A major) mighty thin stew though,
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you could read the magazine  (E major) right  (A major) through  (D major) it.  (G major)  (A major)  (D major) 
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I always have figured  (G major) that if that stew'd
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been  (A major) just a little bit thinner,
some of them there politicians
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 (A major) could have seen through it.  (D major) 
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