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Washington Talkin' Blues easy guitar chords by
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie

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Verse 1
G
C
G
D

G

Long about
B

nineteen twentynine.
D

I owned a little farm,
G

was a doin' just fine.
B

Raised a little row crop raised some wheat
C#
G

Sold it over at the county seat,
C
B

Drawed the money. Raised
D

a family.
Verse 2

But the dust came along,
Cb
C#

and the price went down,

Didn't have the money when the
F#

bank come around;
Cb
C

Tumble weeds and the black dust blowed,
D

So we hit the trail to the land
F#
G
D

where the waters floed,
C#
D

Way out across yonder somewhere.
Verse 3
F#
Cb

Well, the hot old rocks

and the desert sand
F#
C#
F#

Made my mind run back to the dust bowl land,

Cb

But my hopes was high and we rolled along
C#

To the Columbia River up in
F#

Washington.
Cb

Lots of good rain,
C#

Little piece of land. Feller might grow something.
F#
Verse 4
F#
Cb

We settled down on
C#

some cut over land

Pulled up brush and the stumps
F#

by hand.
Cb

Hot sun burnt up my first crop of wheat
C#

And the river down the canyon

just 500 feet.
F#
Cb
C#

Might as we of been 50 miles.
F#

Couldn't get no water.
Cb

We loaded our belongings and we lit out for town
Verse 5
C#

Seen the old
F#

vacant houses and farms all around,

Cb

And folks a leaving out,
C#

if you're asking me

That's as lonesome as sight
F#

as a feller can see.
Cb
C#

Good land. Grow anything you plant,
F#

long as you can get the moisture.
Cb

I struck a lumber town and heard the big saw sing,
Verse 6

C#

And when business is good,

why lumber's king;
F#

I went to lookin' for a
C#
Cb

job but the man said no,
C#

So we hit the skids on
F#

the old skid row.
Cb

Traipsing up and down. Chasing a
C#
F#

bite to eat. Kids hungry
C#
Heard about a job,
Verse 7


so we hit the wheat

Made about enough for the kids to eat,
F#

Picked in the berries,
Cb

gathered in the fruit,
C#
F#

Hops, peaches, and the apples, too.
Cb

Slept in just about everything
C#
F#

except a good warm bed.
Cb
Been to Arizona, been
Verse 8

to California,
C#

too,

Found the people was plenty but
F#

the jobs was few;
Cb

Well may be it's like the feller said,
C#

When they ain't enough arok, well,
F#

business is dead,
Cb
C#

Sorta ailin'. Ain't no money a changin' hands,
F#
Cb
C#

just people changing places. Folks wastin gasoline a'chasin' around.
F#
Verse 9

Now what we need is a
Cb

great big dam
C#
F#

To throw a lot of water out acrost that land,


People could work an
Cb

d the stuff would grow
C#

And you could wave goodbye
F#
Cb

to the old Skid Row
C#

Work hard, raise all kinds of stuff, kids, too.
F#
Cb
C#
F#
Cb
C#

Take it easy.

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  • D

  • B

    2
  • C#

    4
  • Cb

    2
  • F#

    2

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