Tom: G major
Verse 1
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Back in 1927 I had a little
farm
and they called that heaven
D
and I hauled my crops all into town
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Bought clothes and groceries,
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and raised me a family.
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Rain quit and the wind got high
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and a black old dust storm filled the sky
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C
and swapped my farm for a ford machine
D
and I poured it full of this gas
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I leaned and started rockin'
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and a rollin' out of the dust bowl
and across the mountains
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and way over towards that old peach bowl
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D
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in California.
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There was a way up
C
yonder in a mountain road
D
that had a hot motor and a heavy load
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and I was goin' pretty fast
and up and down like popcorn poppin'.
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Sort of a nervous bust down
there of some kind or other.
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There was a feller there,
a mechanic feller,
charged me 13 dollars,
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C
D
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said he was in giant trouble.
Yeah, way up yonder in a
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way high up in a piney wood,
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C
and he gives that rolling ford a shove,
as far as I could.
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D
It was a hairpin turn, I didn't make it
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C
Man alive, I'm tellin' you,
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the fiddles and the guitars really flew
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That four took off like a flyin' squirrel
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and it flew halfway around the world
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Scattered wives and childrens
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all over the side by the fire
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Well, we got out to the west coast broke,
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said dad gum hungry, thought I'd croak,
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and I bummed up a spud or two.
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My wife fixed up a tater stew,
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we poured the kids full of it.
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It was a mighty thin stew though,
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you could read the magazine right through.
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Am
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Always have figured that if that
D
stew had been just a little bit thinner,
some of them there politicians
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D
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could have seen through.
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