Woody Guthrie - Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Version) Lyrics

Lyrics Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Version) - Woody Guthrie



Back in nineteen twenty-seven
I had a little farm and I called that heaven
When the price's up and the rain come down
And I hauled the crops all into town
I got the money, bought clothes and groceries
Fed the kids and raised a family
The rain, it quit and the wind got high
And the black, old dust storm filled the sky
And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine
And I poured it full of this gas-i-line
And then started rockin' and rollin'
Over the mountains and deserts and stuff like that to California
Way up yonder, on a mountain road
A hot motor and a heavy load
I was goin' purty fast, I wasn't even stoppin'
A-bouncin' up and down, like popcorn poppin'
Had a breakdown, some kind of a nervous bustdown of some kind
There was a feller there, mechanic feller, said it was engine trouble
Way up yonder, on a mountain curve
I was way up yonder, in a piney wood
I gave that rollin' Ford a shove
And I was gonna coast as far as I could
Commence rollin', pickin' up speed
It was a hairpin turn an' I didn't make it
Man alive, I'm a-tellin' you
The fiddles and the guitars really flew
That Ford took off like a flyin' squirrel
And it flew halfway around the world
Scattered wives and childrens all over the side of that mountain
We got out to the West Coast broke
So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croke
And I bummed up a spud or two
And my wife fixed up a tater stew
And we fed kids [?] of it
The [?] bunch of five [?] runnin' around
That stew is a-thin
You could read a magazine right through it
Always have thought and always had figured
That if it'd been just little bit thinner
Some of these here politicians could've seen through it



Writer(s): Woody Guthrie


Woody Guthrie - The Legends of Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie
Album The Legends of Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie
date of release
18-09-2012

1 The Great Dust Storm - Dust Storm Disaster
2 Talking Union
3 Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know You)
4 Which Side Are You On?
5 Wasn't That a Time (Concert Version)
6 Blowin' Down The Road (I Ain't Going To Be Treated This Way)
7 Guantanamera
8 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
9 All I Want
10 Tom Joad, Pt. I
11 We Shall Overcome (Live)
12 Union Maid
13 Tom Joad, Pt. II
14 Goodnight, Irene
15 Do Re Mi
16 Pay Me My Money Down
17 Frankie and Johnnie
18 Dust Bowl Refugee
19 Follow the Drinking Ground
20 I Ain't Got No Home
21 Rock Island Line
22 Dust Can't Kill Me
23 Stackolee
24 Lonesome Traveller
25 Dust Pneumonia Blues
26 Sixteen Tons
27 Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Version)
28 Cumberland Gap
29 Deliver the Goods
30 This Land is Your Land
31 Pretty Boy Floyd
32 Round And Around Hitler's Grave
33 Pastures of Plently
34 Dear Mr President
35 House of the Rising Sun
36 Better World A-Comin'
37 Washington Breakdown
38 Hard Travelin'
39 C For Conscription
40 John Henry
41 Muleskinner Blues
42 Ballad of October 16th
43 Do Re Mi (Version 2)
44 The Strange Death of John Doe
45 Vigilante Man
46 Babe O'Mine
47 The Sinking of the Reuben James
48 A Picture from Life's Other Side
49 Hard, Ain't It Hard
50 Plow Under
51 Dust Bowl Blues
52 Song for Bridges
53 Worried Man Blues




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