The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]On the[G] 14th day of Apr[D]il of [A]193[D]5,
There struck the worst of dust storms
that [A]ever filled [D]the sky.
[G]You could see that dust storm [D]comin',
the cloud looked deathlike black,
And through our mighty nation,
it [A]left a dreadful track[D].
From [G]Oklahoma [D]City to the Arizona line,
Dakota and Neb[G]raska[D]
[A]to the lazy Rio Gra[D]nde,
[G]It fell across our [D]city like a curtain
of [A]black rolled [D]down,
We thought it was our judgement,
[A]we thought it was our doo[D]m.

[Verse 2]
[G]The radio repor[D]ted,
we listened [A]with [D]alarm,
The wild and windy actions of this
[A]great [D]mysterious storm;
From [G]Albuquerque and Clo[D]vis,
and all New [A]Mexico,
[D]They said it was the blackest
that [A]ever they had [D]saw.

[Verse 3]
From [G]old Dodge City, Kansas,
[D]the dus[A]t had rung their kne[D]ll,
And a few more comrades sleeping
on [A]top of old Boot [D]Hill.
From [G]Denver, [D]Colorado,
they said it [A]blew [D]so strong,
They thought that they could hold out,
but they [A]didn't know how [D]long.

[Verse 4]
Our [G]relatives were [D]huddled into
their oil boom shacks,
And the children they was cryin' as
it [A]whistled through [D]the cracks.
[G]An d the family it was [D]crowded
into their [A]little [D]room,
They thought the world had ended,
and they [A]thought it was their [D]doom.
[G]The storm

[Verse 5]
took place at sun[D]down,
it lasted [A]through [D]the night,
When we looked out next morning,
[A]we saw a terrible [D]sight.
[G]We saw outside our [D]window where
wheat fields [A]they had [D]grown
Was now a rippling ocean of
[A]dust the wind had [D]blown.
It [G]covered

[Verse 6]
up our [D]fences,
it covered up our barns,
It covered up our tractors in
[A]this wild and dusty [D]storm.
[G]We loaded [D]our jalopies and
piled our families in,
We rattled down that highway
to [A]never come back [D]again.
[A][D]