Talking Dust Bowl Lyrics

Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven,
I had a little farm and I called that heaven.
Well, the prices up and the rain come down,
And I hauled my crops all into town --
I got the money, bought clothes and groceries,
Fed the kids, and raised a family.

Rain quit and the wind got high,
And the black ol' 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 I started, rockin' an' a-rollin',
Over the mountains, out towards the old Peach Bowl.

Way up yonder on a mountain road,
I had a hot motor and a heavy load,
I's a-goin' pretty fast, there wasn't even stoppin',
A-bouncin' up and down, like popcorn poppin' --
Had a breakdown, sort of a nervous bustdown of some kind,
There was a feller there, a mechanic feller,
Said it was en-gine trouble.

Way up yonder on a mountain curve,
It's way up yonder in the piney wood,
An' I give that rollin' Ford a shove,
An' I's a-gonna coast as far as I could --
Commence coastin', pickin' up speed,
Was a hairpin turn, 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 flying squirrel
An' 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 croak,
An' I bummed up a spud or two,
An' my wife fixed up a tater stew --
We poured the kids full of it,
Mighty thin stew, though,
You could read a magazine right through it.
Always have figured
That if it'd been just a little bit thinner,
Some of these here politicians
Coulda seen through it.

Woody Guthrie - Ramblin' Round

Dec 2000

1. Talking Hard Luck Blues
2. Hard Traveling
3. Tom Joad, Part 1
4. Tom Joad, Part 2
5. Pretty Boy Floyd
6. Dust Pneumonia Blues
7. Muleskinner Blues
8. Pastures of Plenty
9. Ramblin' Round
10. Vigilante Man
11. Grand Coulee Dam
12. Ranger's Command
13. Do Re Mi
14. Ludlow Massacre
15. A Picture from Life's Other Side
16. Talking Dust Bowl
17. This Land Is Your Land
18. Philadelphia Lawyer
19. Baby Take a Whiff On Me
20. I Ain't Got No Home
21. Gipsy Davy
22. Slipknot
23. Dust Bowl Refugee
24. Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
25. Billy the Kid
26. Buffalo Gals
27. Chisholm Trail
28. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo
29. New York Town
30. Dust Can't Kill Me
31. Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
32. I Ride an Old Paint
33. Dusty Old Dust
34. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
35. Talking Columbia
36. Great Dust Storm
37. Buffalo Skinners
38. Jesus Christ
39. Blowing Down This Road Feeling Bad
40. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)