Tonalité : G major•
Verse 1
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Long about
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nineteen twentynine.
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I owned a little farm,
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was a doin' just fine.
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Raised a little row crop raised some wheat
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Sold it over at the county seat,
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Drawed the money. Raised
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a family.
Verse 2
But the dust came along,
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and the price went down,
Didn't have the money when the
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bank come around;
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C
Tumble weeds and the black dust blowed,
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So we hit the trail to the land
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G
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where the waters floed,
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Way out across yonder somewhere.
Verse 3
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Well, the hot old rocks
and the desert sand
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C#
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Made my mind run back to the dust bowl land,
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But my hopes was high and we rolled along
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To the Columbia River up in
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Washington.
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Lots of good rain,
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Little piece of land. Feller might grow something.
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Verse 4
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We settled down on
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some cut over land
Pulled up brush and the stumps
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by hand.
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Hot sun burnt up my first crop of wheat
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And the river down the canyon
just 500 feet.
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B
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Might as we of been 50 miles.
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Couldn't get no water.
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We loaded our belongings and we lit out for town
Verse 5
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Seen the old
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vacant houses and farms all around,
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And folks a leaving out,
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if you're asking me
That's as lonesome as sight
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as a feller can see.
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Good land. Grow anything you plant,
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long as you can get the moisture.
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I struck a lumber town and heard the big saw sing,
Verse 6
C#
And when business is good,
why lumber's king;
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I went to lookin' for a
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job but the man said no,
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So we hit the skids on
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the old skid row.
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Traipsing up and down. Chasing a
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bite to eat. Kids hungry
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Heard about a job,
Verse 7
so we hit the wheat
Made about enough for the kids to eat,
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Picked in the berries,
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gathered in the fruit,
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F#
Hops, peaches, and the apples, too.
B
Slept in just about everything
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except a good warm bed.
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Been to Arizona, been
Verse 8
to California,
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too,
Found the people was plenty but
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the jobs was few;
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Well maybe it's like the feller said,
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When they ain't enough arok, well,
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business is dead,
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C#
Sorta ailin'. Ain't no money a changin' hands,
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just people changing places. Folks wastin gasoline a'chasin' around.
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Verse 9
Now what we need is a
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great big dam
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To throw a lot of water out acrost that land,
People could work an
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d the stuff would grow
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And you could wave goodbye
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to the old Skid Row
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Work hard, raise all kinds of stuff, kids, too.
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Take it easy.
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