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Dust Bowl Blues Lyrics

Artist: Woody Guthrie
Album: Dust Bowl Ballads (Buddha Records)

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.

Comments/Interpretations

by kvsdkghsdjk on 10/8/2008 5:07pm
AWESOME SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

by gjjadk on 1/29/2009 5:50pm
sadd

by ayeee on 4/6/2010 2:38pm
cool song tlkin bout dustt in all , dust isnt my friend anymore it buried me 10 ft under w/ woody<--the guy who wrote this song :]

by Brian River boy on 1/12/2012 3:54pm
wTF is this shit?

by caliman69 on 1/12/2012 3:58pm
BEST SONG EVER!!!!!! Neta wey

by lil on 10/11/2013 10:32am
love this song. Woody Guthrie is a genius