Woody Guthrie - Talking Columbia (Remastered) Lyrics

Lyrics Talking Columbia (Remastered) - Woody Guthrie



Well, down along the river just a-sittin′ on a rock
I'm a-lookin′ at the boats in the Bonneville lock.
Gate swings open, the boat sails in,
Toot that whistle, she's gone again.
Gasoline goin' up. Wheat comin′ down.
Well, I filled up my hat brim, drunk a little taste,
Thought about a river just a-goin′ to waste;
Thought about the dust, an' thought about the sand,
Thought about the people, an′ thought about the land.
Folks runnin' round all over creation,
Lookin′ for some kind of little place.
Well, I pulled out my pencil, scribbled this song,
Figured all them salmon just couldn't be wrong;
Them salmon fish is mighty shrewd,
They got senators and politicians, too.
Just about like the president. They run every four years.
You just watch this river, though, pretty soon
Everybody′s gonna be changin' their tune;
The big Grand Coulee and the Bonneville dams
Run a thousand factories for Uncle Sam.
And everybody else in the world. Turnin' out
Everything from fertilizers to sewing machines,
And atomic bedrooms and plastic --
Everything′s gonna be plastic.
Uncle Sam need houses and stuff to eat,
Uncle Sam needs wool, and Uncle Sam needs wheat,
Uncle Sam needs water and power dams,
Uncle Sam needs people, and the people need land.
′Course I don't like dictators none myself,
But then I think the whole country had ought to be run by
E-lec-trici-ty.



Writer(s): Woody Guthrie


Woody Guthrie - 100 - 100 Original Tracks (Remastered)
Album 100 - 100 Original Tracks (Remastered)
date of release
25-04-2013

1 House Of The Rising Sun (Remastered)
2 Dust Can't Kill Me (Remastered)
3 This Land Is Your Land (Remastered)
4 Blowing Down the Road (Remastered)
5 Jesus Christ (Remastered)
6 Cowboy Waltz (Remastered)
7 Two Good Men - Sacco and Vanzetti (Remastered)
8 It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song (Remastered)
9 Talking Columbia (Remastered)
10 Song of the Coulee Dam (Remastered)
11 Dead or Alive - Poor Lazarus (Remastered)
12 A Dollar Down (Remastered)
13 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (Remastered)
14 Old Joe Clark (Remastered)
15 Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way (Remastered)
16 Bad Lee Brown (Remastered)
17 Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done (Remastered)
18 Boll Weevil Blues (Remastered)
19 Greenback Dollar (Remastered)
20 Railroad Blues (Remastered)
21 Dust Bowl Refugee (Remastered)
22 New Found Land (Remastered)
23 Dusty Old Dust - So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Remastered)
24 Old Time Religion (Remastered)
25 Lost Train Blues (Remastered)
26 Brown Eyes (Remastered)
27 Crand Coulee Dam (Remastered)
28 Bed On the Floor (Remastered)
29 Bury Me Beneath The Willow (Remastered)
30 Car Song (Remastered)
31 Dirty Overalls (Remastered)
32 Better World A-Comin' (Remastered)
33 Columbus Stockade (Remastered)
34 Cumberland Gap (Remastered)
35 Ezekiel Saw The Wheel (Remastered)
36 Rye Whiskey (Remastered)
37 Danville Girl (Remastered)
38 Baltimore To Washington (Remastered)
39 Do Re Mi (Remastered)
40 Roll On Columbia (Remastered)
41 Dust Bowl Blues (Remastered)
42 Hang Knot (Remastered)
43 End of the Line (Remastered)
44 Texas Oil Field (Remastered)
45 Buffalo Skinners (Remastered)
46 Beaumont Rag (Remastered)
47 Blowin' Down the Road - I Ain't Going To Be Treated This Way (Remastered)
48 Foggy Mountain Top (Remastered)
49 Roll Columbia. Roll (Remastered)
50 Get Along Little Doggies (Remastered)
51 Boll Weevil Song (Remastered)
52 Grand Coulee Dam (Remastered)
53 Hard Ain't It Hard (Remastered)
54 Vigilante Man (Remastered)
55 Miner's Song (Remastered)
56 Hard Travelin' (Remastered)
57 Hey Lolly Lolly (Remastered)
58 Who's Going to Show Your Pretty Feet (Remastered)
59 Danville Girl, Pt. 2 (Remastered)
60 Hobo's Lullaby (Remastered)
61 Columbia's Waters (Remastered)
62 Howjadoo (Remastered)
63 I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore (Remastered)
64 Dust Pneumonia Blues (Remastered)
65 Pastures Of Plenty (Remastered)
66 Tom Joad, Pt. 1 (Remastered)
67 Tom Joad, Pt. 2 (Remastered)
68 Johnny Hard (Remastered)
69 Gypsy Davy (Remastered)
70 Stewball (Remastered)
71 Ramblin' Blues (Remastered)
72 Little Black Train (Remastered)
73 Lonesome Day (Remastered)
74 Lost John (Remastered)
75 Ludlow Massacre (Remastered)
76 Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Remastered)
77 John Henry (Remastered)
78 More Pretty Girls Than One (Remastered)
79 Oregon Trail (Remastered)
80 Philadelphia Lawyer (Remastered)
81 Poor Boy (Remastered)
82 Pretty Boy Floyd (Remastered)
83 Put My Little Shoes Away (Remastered)
84 Ramblin' Round (Remastered)
85 Take a Whiff On Me (Remastered)
86 Ride Old Paint (Remastered)
87 Rubber Dolly (Remastered)
88 Washington Talkin' Blues (Remastered)
89 Sally Goodin' (Remastered)
90 Ship In The Sky (Remastered)
91 Sinking Of The Reuben James (Remastered)
92 The Great Dust Storm (Remastered)
93 Skip to My Lou (Remastered)
94 So Long It's Been Good to Know You (Remastered)
95 Sourwood Mountain (Remastered)
96 Ranger's Command (Remastered)
97 Springfield Mountain (Remastered)
98 Struggle Blues (Remastered)
99 Jackhammer Blues (Remastered)
100 End of My Line (Remastered)




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