Talking Dust Bowl Blues Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]Bac[D]k[G][C][D][G]
in Nineteen [C]Twenty- Seven
I had a [D]little farm that I called heaven
[G]Well, the prices up and
the rain come [C]down
And I hauled [D]my crops all into town
I got [G]the money
Bought [C]clothes and groceries
Fed the [D]kids and [G]raised a family

[Verse 2]
Well the rain [G]quit and the [C]wind got high
And the black [D]ol' dust storm
filled the sky
And I swapped [G]my farm
[C]for a Ford machine
And I poured it [D]full of this gas- i- line
And I [G]started, rockin' [C]and a- rollin'
Over the mountains,
[D]out towards the [G]old Peach Bowl

[Verse 3]
Way up [G]yonder [C]on a mountain road
I had a hot [D]mo tor and a heavy load
Got a- goin' [G]pretty fast,
[C]there wasn't even stoppin'
And a- bouncin' [D]up and
down, like popcorn poppin'
I had a breakdown,
[G]sort of a ner[C]vous breakdown of some kind
[D]There was [G]a feller there,
a mech[C]anic feller
Said [D]it was engine trouble
[G]

[Verse 4]
Way up yonder [C]on a mountain curve
[D]Way up yonder in the piney wood
I gave [G]that rollin' [C]Ford a shove
And was a- gonna [D]coast
as far as I [G]could
Commence [C]coastin', pickin' [G]up speed
Was a hair[D]pin turn, I didn't [G]make it

[Verse 5]
[G]
Well man alive, I'm tellin' [C]you
And the fiddles an
[D]d the guitars really flew
And that Ford [G]took off like
[C]a flying squirrel
And it flew [D]halfway around the world
Scattered [G]wives and children
All over [D]the side of that [G]mountain

[Verse 6]
[G]
We got out to the West [C]Coast broke
So [D]doggon' hungry I thought I'd croak
So I bummed [G]up a spud or two
[C]And[D] my wife fixed up a tat[G]er stew
We poured the [C]kids full [G]of it
Mighty thin stew, [D]though
You could read a magazine
right through [G]it

[Verse 7]
[G]
Well I always have figured [C]that
If it'd been just a [D]little bit thinner
Some of these here politicians
coulda seen right [G]through it

[Outro 1]
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