Key: F major
Verse 1
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Back in 1927,
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I had a little farm
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and I called that heaven,
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the prices up
and the rain come down,
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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 a rare pack
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 hole dust storm filled the sky
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And I swapped my farm for a ford machine
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And I forded full of this gas
I leeked and started
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Rockin' and rollin' out
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of the dust bowl
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Travelin' across the mountains,
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way over towards that old pizza place,
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the Isle of Oranges.
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It was way up yonder in a
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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
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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 kind was a feller there,
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a mechanic feller
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Charged me thirteen dollars,
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said it was N -Giant Puppets
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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 I gave that Ford a rollin' shove
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And I was gonna coast as fur as I could
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Commence to roast
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Pickin' up speed was a hairpin turn,
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I did make it!
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Man alive, I'm a -tellin' you,
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the fiddles me guitars really flew,
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that Ford took off like a blind squirrel
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and it flew halfway around the world,
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scattered wives and childrens
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all over the side of that
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mountain.
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We got out to the west coast, broke,
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so dad got me hungry,
I thought I'd croak,
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and I bummed up a spud or two,
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and my wife fixed up a tater stew.
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We poured the kid full of it.
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It a mighty thin stew, though,
you could read the magazine
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right through it.
I always have figured
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that if that student had been
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just a little bit thinner,
some of them there politicians
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could have seen through it.
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