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The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)

Woody Guthrie2008年8月25日

The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) 歌詞

The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) - Woody Guthrie

On the 14th day of April of 1935

 

There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky

 

You could see that dust storm comin' the cloud looked deathlike black

 

And through our mighty nation it left a dreadful track

 

From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line

 

Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande

 

It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down

 

We thought it was our judgement we thought it was our doom

 

The radio reported we listened with alarm

 

The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm;

 

From Albuquerque and Clovis and all New Mexico

 

They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw

 

From old Dodge City Kansas the dust had rung their knell

 

And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill

 

From Denver Colorado they said it blew so strong

 

They thought that they could hold out but they didn't know how long

 

Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks

And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks

 

And the family it was crowded into their little room

 

They thought the world had ended and they thought it was their doom

 

The storm took place at sundown it lasted through the night

 

When we looked out next morning we saw a terrible sight

 

We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown

 

Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown

 

It covered up our fences it covered up our barns

 

It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm

 

We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in

 

 

We rattled down that highway to never come back again