Talking Dust Bowl Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D][G][D][Eb][Ab][D][G][A]
[D]Back in 192[G]7 I
[A]had a little [E]farm and I [A]call that heaven
And the [D]price is up and the [G]rain come
down and I [A]hauled my crops all into town
I got the [D]money
Bought [G]clothes and groceries
and I [A]rared back
Fed the kids and raised
me a fam[D]ily[G][A][D]
The rain quit, the [G]wind got high
And a [A]black old dust storm filled the sky
And I [D]swapped my farm for
[G]a forward machine
And [A]I poured it full of this gas
I laid and it started
[D]Rockin'[G] and rollin'
Out [A]of the dust bowl
And across the mountains
Way over towards that old [D]pizza place
In
[G]California[A][D][Bm][D]
[G][A][D]
It was way up yonder in a [G]mountain road
that had a [A]hot motor and a heavy load
And I was [D]goin' pretty fast,
[G]it wasn't even stoppin'
Just a [D]-bouncin' up and [A]down like popcorn,
[E]poppin' [A]had a [D]breakdown
Kind of a sort of a [G]nervous
bust down there
Some guy was a [A]feller there,
a mechan[E]ic feller[A]
They charged [D]me 13,
said it was [G]in giant [A]bubbles.[D][G][A]
[D]Yeah, way up yonder in a
[G]mountain road,
[A]way high up in a piney [D]wood,
and they gave that ford a [G]rollin' shove,
and [A]I was gonna [E]coast
as fur as I could,
and com[A]menced to [D]coast.
Pickin' up speed [G]was a [A]hairpin turn.
I didn't [D]make [G]it.[A]
[D]Man alive, I'm a -te[G]llin' you that
[A]bittersweet guitars really flew
That [D]fort took off like [G]a blind squirrel and it
[A]flew halfway around [E]the world
Scattered [D]wives and chil[G]drens all
[A]over the side of that [D]moun[G]tain[A][D]
We got out to the west [G]coast broke so
[A]Dad got me hungry
I thought I'd croak and
[D]I bombed up a [G]spud or two
My [A]wife fixed up a potato [D]stew
They poured the [G]can full of it.
On a [A]mighty thin stew though,
you could read the magazine [E]right [A]through [D]it.[G][A][D]
I always have figured [G]that if that stew'd
been [A]just a little bit thinner,
some of them there politicians
[A]could have seen [D]through it.
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