Dusty Old Dust

Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good To Know You) - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思裡)

I've sung this song

But I'll sing it again

Of the place

That I lived on the wild windy plains

In the month called April

County called Gray

And here's what all of the people there say:

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

This dusty old dust is a getting my home

And I got to be drifting along

A dust storm hit

And it hit like thunder;

It dusted us over

And it covered us under;

Blocked out the traffic

And blocked out the sun

Straight for home all the people did run

Singing:

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

This dusty old dust is a getting my home

And I got to be drifting along

We talked of the end of the world and then

We'd sing a song

And then sing it again

We'd sit for an hour

And not say a word

And then these words

Would be heard:

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

This dusty old dust is a getting my home

And I got to be drifting along

Sweet hearts sat in the dark and sparked

They hugged and kissed in that dusty old dark

They sighed and cried

Hugged and kissed

Instead of marriage

They talked like this: "Honey"

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

This dusty old dust is a getting my home

And I got to be drifting along

Now the telephone rang

And it jumped off the wall

That was the preacher

A making his call

He said "Kind friend this may the end;

And you got your last chance of salvation of sin "

The churches was jammed

And the churches was packed

And that dusty old dust storm

Blowed so black

Preacher could not read a word of his text

And he folded his specs

And he took up collection

Said:

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

So long it's been good to know yuh

This dusty old dust is a getting my home

And I got to be drifting along