Dust Bowl Blues Lyrics

The song Dust Bowl Blues is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named A Proper Introduction to Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land in the year 2004 .



I just blowed in, and I got them dust bowl blues,
I just blowed in, and I got them dust bowl blues,
I just blowed in, and I'll blow back out again.

I guess you've heard about ev'ry kind of blues,
I guess you've heard about ev'ry kind of blues,
But when the dust gets high, you can't even see the sky.

I've seen the dust so black that I couldn't see a thing,
I've seen the dust so black that I couldn't see a thing,
And the wind so cold, boy, it nearly cut your water off.

I seen the wind so high that it blowed my fences down,
I've seen the wind so high that it blowed my fences down,
Buried my tractor six feet underground.

Well, it turned my farm into a pile of sand,
Yes, it turned my farm into a pile of sand,
I had to hit that road with a bottle in my hand.

I spent ten years down in that old dust bowl,
I spent ten years down in that old dust bowl,
When you get that dust pneumony, boy, it's time to go.

I had a gal, and she was young and sweet,
I had a gal, and she was young and sweet,
But a dust storm buried her sixteen hundred feet.

She was a good gal, long, tall and stout,
Yes, she was a good gal, long, tall and stout,
I had to get a steam shovel just to dig my darlin' out.

These dusty blues are the dustiest ones I know,
These dusty blues are the dustiest ones I know,
Buried head over heels in the black old dust,
I had to pack up and go.
An' I just blowed in, an' I'll soon blow out again.




Woody Guthrie - A Proper Introduction to Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land

Sep 2004

  1. This Land Is Your Land
  2. Grand Coulee Dam
  3. Dust Bowl Blues
  4. Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
  5. Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)
  6. Pretty Boy Floyd
  7. I Ain't Got No Home
  8. Tom Joad, Pt. 1
  9. Tom Joad, Pt. 2
  10. Do Re Mi
  11. Vigilante Man
  12. Dust Cain't Kill Me
  13. Dust Pneumonia Blues
  14. Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
  15. Buffalo Skinners
  16. Mule Skinner Blues
  17. Worried Man Blues
  18. Gambling Man
  19. Stewball
  20. Take a Whiff on Me
  21. Cumberland Gap
  22. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  23. Philadelphia Lawyer
  24. I Ride an Old Paint
  25. Ship in the Sky
  26. Stackolee
  27. When the Yanks Go Marching In


Dust Bowl Blues