Lyrics and translation Woody Guthrie - Talking Dust Bowl
Back
in
Nineteen
Twenty-Seven,
En
1927,
I
had
a
little
farm
and
I
called
that
heaven.
J'avais
une
petite
ferme
et
je
l'appelais
le
paradis.
Well,
the
prices
up
and
the
rain
come
down,
Eh
bien,
les
prix
ont
augmenté
et
la
pluie
est
tombée,
And
I
hauled
my
crops
all
into
town
--
Et
j'ai
transporté
mes
récoltes
en
ville --
I
got
the
money,
bought
clothes
and
groceries,
J'ai
gagné
de
l'argent,
j'ai
acheté
des
vêtements
et
de
la
nourriture,
Fed
the
kids,
and
raised
a
family.
J'ai
nourri
les
enfants
et
élevé
une
famille.
Rain
quit
and
the
wind
got
high,
La
pluie
a
cessé
et
le
vent
s'est
levé,
And
the
black
ol′
dust
storm
filled
the
sky.
Et
la
poussière
noire
a
rempli
le
ciel.
And
I
swapped
my
farm
for
a
Ford
machine,
J'ai
échangé
ma
ferme
contre
une
Ford,
And
I
poured
it
full
of
this
gas-i-line
--
Et
je
l'ai
remplie
d'essence --
And
I
started,
rockin'
an′
a-rollin',
Et
je
suis
parti,
en
roulant
et
en
secouant,
Over
the
mountains,
out
towards
the
old
Peach
Bowl.
Par-dessus
les
montagnes,
vers
le
vieux
Peach
Bowl.
Way
up
yonder
on
a
mountain
road,
Là-haut
sur
une
route
de
montagne,
I
had
a
hot
motor
and
a
heavy
load,
J'avais
un
moteur
chaud
et
une
lourde
charge,
I's
a-goin′
pretty
fast,
there
wasn′t
even
stoppin',
J'allais
vite,
il
n'y
avait
pas
d'arrêt,
A-bouncin′
up
and
down,
like
popcorn
poppin'
--
En
rebondissant
de
haut
en
bas,
comme
du
maïs
soufflé
qui
éclate --
Had
a
breakdown,
sort
of
a
nervous
bustdown
of
some
kind,
J'ai
eu
une
panne,
une
sorte
de
panne
de
nerfs,
There
was
a
feller
there,
a
mechanic
feller,
Il
y
avait
un
type
là-bas,
un
mécanicien,
Said
it
was
en-gine
trouble.
Il
a
dit
que
c'était
un
problème
de
moteur.
Way
up
yonder
on
a
mountain
curve,
Là-haut
sur
une
courbe
de
montagne,
It′s
way
up
yonder
in
the
piney
wood,
C'est
là-haut
dans
la
forêt
de
pins,
An'
I
give
that
rollin′
Ford
a
shove,
Et
j'ai
poussé
cette
Ford
qui
roulait,
An'
I's
a-gonna
coast
as
far
as
I
could
--
Et
j'allais
rouler
aussi
loin
que
possible --
Commence
coastin′,
pickin′
up
speed,
J'ai
commencé
à
rouler,
j'ai
pris
de
la
vitesse,
Was
a
hairpin
turn,
I
didn't
make
it.
C'était
un
virage
en
épingle
à
cheveux,
je
ne
l'ai
pas
fait.
Man
alive,
I′m
a-tellin'
you,
Mon
Dieu,
je
te
le
dis,
The
fiddles
and
the
guitars
really
flew.
Les
violons
et
les
guitares
ont
vraiment
volé.
That
Ford
took
off
like
a
flying
squirrel
Cette
Ford
a
décollé
comme
un
écureuil
volant
An′
it
flew
halfway
around
the
world
--
Et
elle
a
volé
à
mi-chemin
du
monde --
Scattered
wives
and
childrens
Elle
a
dispersé
les
femmes
et
les
enfants
All
over
the
side
of
that
mountain.
Sur
tout
le
flanc
de
la
montagne.
We
got
out
to
the
West
Coast
broke,
On
est
arrivés
sur
la
côte
ouest
fauchés,
So
dad-gum
hungry
I
thought
I'd
croak,
J'avais
tellement
faim
que
j'ai
cru
que
j'allais
mourir,
An′
I
bummed
up
a
spud
or
two,
Et
j'ai
quémandé
une
ou
deux
pommes
de
terre,
An'
my
wife
fixed
up
a
tater
stew
--
Et
ma
femme
a
fait
un
ragoût
de
pommes
de
terre --
We
poured
the
kids
full
of
it,
On
a
rempli
les
enfants
de
ça,
Mighty
thin
stew,
though,
Un
ragoût
assez
clair,
cependant,
You
could
read
a
magazine
right
through
it.
On
pouvait
lire
un
magazine
à
travers.
Always
have
figured
J'ai
toujours
pensé
That
if
it'd
been
just
a
little
bit
thinner,
Que
s'il
avait
été
un
peu
plus
clair,
Some
of
these
here
politicians
Certains
de
ces
politiciens
Coulda
seen
through
it.
Auraient
pu
voir
à
travers.
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1
Nine Hundred Miles
2 Do Re Mi
3 Dust Pneumonia Blues
4 Pretty Boy Floyd
5 I Ain't Got No Home
6 Sally Don't You Grieve
7 Hard, Ain't It Hard
8 Ramblin' Round
9 Dust Storm Disaster
10 Dust Bowl Refugee
11 Will Rogers Highway
12 Los Angeles New Year's Flood
13 Ramblin' Blues
14 Columbia's Waters
15 Talking Columbia
16 New Found Land
17 Roll On Columbia
18 Oregon Trail
19 Pastures of Plenty
20 Lonesome Valley
21 Stewball
22 Gypsy Davy
23 It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song
24 Greenback Dollar
25 Talking Dust Bowl
26 Worried Man Blues
27 The Jolly Banker
28 Jesus Christ
29 Jesse James
30 Billy the Kid
31 Farmer-Labor Train
32 End of My Line
33 Washington Talkin' Blues
34 Grand Coulee Dam
35 Jackhammer Blues
36 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
37 The Sinking of the Reuben James
38 Hard Travelin'
39 Lost Train
40 Refugees Pouring Into California
41 Migrants Arriving In California
42 Jimmie Rodgers
43 California Blues
44 Leaving the Dust Bowl
45 Breathing In Dust
46 The Dust Storm of April 14, 1935
47 Contractors Duping the Desperate
48 Interlude 3
49 Wish I'd Stayed In the Wagon Yard
50 Seven Cent Cotton
51 Interlude 2
52 Going Down the Road
53 Riding the Rails
54 Goin' Down the Frisco Line
55 Interlude
56 Walkin' Down That Railroad Line
57 Railroad Blueses
58 California As One of the 48 States
59 The Flood That Took Over 100 Lives
60 Roll Columbia, Roll
61 Introduction
62 Introducing an Old Song
63 The Trail To Mexico
64 Interlude 7
65 Git Along Little Dogies
66 Interlude 6
67 One Dime Blues
68 Interlude 5
69 Stagger Lee
70 Interlude 4
71 A Good Horse
72 About the Worried Man Blues
73 Dust Storms Devastate the Farmland
74 So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya
75 The End of the World
76 When the Great Dust Storm Struck
77 The Midnight Special
78 Jailhouse Songs
79 Boll Weevil
80 Lomax Asks About the Boll Weevil
81 The Troubles and Tragedies That Fractured Woody's Family In Okemah
82 Green Valley Waltz
83 Alan Asks For Another One
84 Beaumont Rag
85 Alan Lomax Asks For a Tune
86 Old Joe Clark
87 Some Old-time Square Dance Tunes
88 Rye Whiskey
89 The Gang of Kids Woody Hung Around With
90 More Talk of Growing Up In Okemah
91 The Railroad Blues
92 Growing Up In Oklahoma
93 Migrants Arrive In California
94 Hard Times
95 Let's Sing Some Blues
96 Chain Around My Leg
97 The Origins of the Song - Continued
98 The Origins of the Song
99 Mary Fagan
100 The Story of Mary Fagan
101 Dirty Overhauls
102 Hundreds of Thousands Made Homeless
103 Another Song About the Depredations of the Bankers
104 Takin' It From the Rich and Givin' It To the Poor
105 Jesse James and His Boys
106 Billy the Kid and Pretty Boy Floyd
107 Songs About Outlaws
108 Bring Back To Me My Blue-Eyed Boy
109 Songs About Hard Times
110 Songs About Bankers
111 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (Reprise)
112 Jazz In America #116
113 Gitta Long, Mr. Hitler
114 Jazz In America #93
115 Labor For Victory
116 The Girl In the Red, White, and Blue
117 Reckless Talk
118 Takin' It Eay
119 Song of the Coulee Dam
120 Narrator
121 VD Avenue
122 Empty Boxcar, My Home
123 Hard Times In the Durant Jail
124 The Old Cracked Looking Glass
125 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (From "The Columbia Program")
126 Narrator (The Lonesome Traveler - Radio Drama)
127 Brooklyne Towne
128 V.D. Gunner's Blues
129 Dig a Hole
130 A Child of VD
131 VD City
132 VD Seaman's Letter
133 A Case of VD
134 Blessed and Curst
135 Intro 2
136 The Veedee Blues
137 Intro 1
138 VD Day
2 Do Re Mi
3 Dust Pneumonia Blues
4 Pretty Boy Floyd
5 I Ain't Got No Home
6 Sally Don't You Grieve
7 Hard, Ain't It Hard
8 Ramblin' Round
9 Dust Storm Disaster
10 Dust Bowl Refugee
11 Will Rogers Highway
12 Los Angeles New Year's Flood
13 Ramblin' Blues
14 Columbia's Waters
15 Talking Columbia
16 New Found Land
17 Roll On Columbia
18 Oregon Trail
19 Pastures of Plenty
20 Lonesome Valley
21 Stewball
22 Gypsy Davy
23 It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song
24 Greenback Dollar
25 Talking Dust Bowl
26 Worried Man Blues
27 The Jolly Banker
28 Jesus Christ
29 Jesse James
30 Billy the Kid
31 Farmer-Labor Train
32 End of My Line
33 Washington Talkin' Blues
34 Grand Coulee Dam
35 Jackhammer Blues
36 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
37 The Sinking of the Reuben James
38 Hard Travelin'
39 Lost Train
40 Refugees Pouring Into California
41 Migrants Arriving In California
42 Jimmie Rodgers
43 California Blues
44 Leaving the Dust Bowl
45 Breathing In Dust
46 The Dust Storm of April 14, 1935
47 Contractors Duping the Desperate
48 Interlude 3
49 Wish I'd Stayed In the Wagon Yard
50 Seven Cent Cotton
51 Interlude 2
52 Going Down the Road
53 Riding the Rails
54 Goin' Down the Frisco Line
55 Interlude
56 Walkin' Down That Railroad Line
57 Railroad Blueses
58 California As One of the 48 States
59 The Flood That Took Over 100 Lives
60 Roll Columbia, Roll
61 Introduction
62 Introducing an Old Song
63 The Trail To Mexico
64 Interlude 7
65 Git Along Little Dogies
66 Interlude 6
67 One Dime Blues
68 Interlude 5
69 Stagger Lee
70 Interlude 4
71 A Good Horse
72 About the Worried Man Blues
73 Dust Storms Devastate the Farmland
74 So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya
75 The End of the World
76 When the Great Dust Storm Struck
77 The Midnight Special
78 Jailhouse Songs
79 Boll Weevil
80 Lomax Asks About the Boll Weevil
81 The Troubles and Tragedies That Fractured Woody's Family In Okemah
82 Green Valley Waltz
83 Alan Asks For Another One
84 Beaumont Rag
85 Alan Lomax Asks For a Tune
86 Old Joe Clark
87 Some Old-time Square Dance Tunes
88 Rye Whiskey
89 The Gang of Kids Woody Hung Around With
90 More Talk of Growing Up In Okemah
91 The Railroad Blues
92 Growing Up In Oklahoma
93 Migrants Arrive In California
94 Hard Times
95 Let's Sing Some Blues
96 Chain Around My Leg
97 The Origins of the Song - Continued
98 The Origins of the Song
99 Mary Fagan
100 The Story of Mary Fagan
101 Dirty Overhauls
102 Hundreds of Thousands Made Homeless
103 Another Song About the Depredations of the Bankers
104 Takin' It From the Rich and Givin' It To the Poor
105 Jesse James and His Boys
106 Billy the Kid and Pretty Boy Floyd
107 Songs About Outlaws
108 Bring Back To Me My Blue-Eyed Boy
109 Songs About Hard Times
110 Songs About Bankers
111 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (Reprise)
112 Jazz In America #116
113 Gitta Long, Mr. Hitler
114 Jazz In America #93
115 Labor For Victory
116 The Girl In the Red, White, and Blue
117 Reckless Talk
118 Takin' It Eay
119 Song of the Coulee Dam
120 Narrator
121 VD Avenue
122 Empty Boxcar, My Home
123 Hard Times In the Durant Jail
124 The Old Cracked Looking Glass
125 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (From "The Columbia Program")
126 Narrator (The Lonesome Traveler - Radio Drama)
127 Brooklyne Towne
128 V.D. Gunner's Blues
129 Dig a Hole
130 A Child of VD
131 VD City
132 VD Seaman's Letter
133 A Case of VD
134 Blessed and Curst
135 Intro 2
136 The Veedee Blues
137 Intro 1
138 VD Day
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