So Long It's Been Good to Ya

So Long It's Been Good To Know Ya - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思里)

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-gettin' my home

And I got to be driftin' along

A dust storm hit an' it hit like thunder;

It dusted us over an' it covered us under;

Blocked out the traffic an' blocked out the sun

Straight for home all the people did run

Singin':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-gettin' my home

And I got to be driftin' along

We talked of the end of the world and then

We'd sing a song an' then sing it again

We'd sit for an hour an' 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-gettin' my home

And I got to be driftin' along

Sweethearts 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-gettin' my home

And I got to be driftin' along

Now the telephone rang an' it jumped off the wall

That was the preacher a-makin' his call

He said "Kind friend this may the end;

An' you got your last chance of salvation of sin "

The churches was jammed

And the churches was packed

An' that dusty old dust storm blowed so black

Preacher could not read a word of his text

An' he folded his specs an' 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-gettin' my home

And I got to be driftin' along