Great Dust Storm Disaster - Woody Guthrie

[00:03.23]On the 14th day of
[00:05.6]April of 1935
[00:10.32]There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky
[00:17.12]You could see that dust storm comin'
[00:20.66]The cloud looked deathlike black
[00:23.93]And through our mighty nation
[00:27.49]It left a dreadful track
[00:30.86]From oklahoma
[00:32.88]City to the
[00:34.49]Arizona line
[00:37.68]Dakota and
[00:39.49]Nebraska to the lazy
[00:42.29]Rio grande
[00:44.34]It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down
[00:51.19]We thought it was our judgement
[00:54.73]We thought it was our doom
[00:58.1]The radio reported
[01:01.41]We listened with alarm
[01:04.86]The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm
[01:11.65]From albuquerque and
[01:13.69]Clovis
[01:15.06]And all
[01:16.07]New mexico
[01:18.45]They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw
[01:25.21]From old dodge
[01:26.45]City
[01:27.15]Kansas
[01:28.64]The dust had rung their knell
[01:31.86]And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old
[01:37.14]Boot hill
[01:38.79]From denver
[01:39.990005]Colorado
[01:42.259995]They said it blew so strong
[01:45.6]They thought that they could hold out
[01:49.08]But they didn't know how long
[01:52.41]Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks
[01:59.11]And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks
[02:05.96]And the family it was crowded into their little room
[02:12.85]They thought the world had ended
[02:16.01]And they thought it was their doom
[02:19.89]The storm took place at sundown
[02:22.94]It lasted through the night
[02:26.31]When we looked out next morning
[02:29.7]We saw a terrible sight
[02:33.05]We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown
[02:40.74]Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown
[02:47.48]It covered up our fences
[02:50.98]It covered up our barns
[02:54.44]It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm
[03:01.23]We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in
[03:07.98]We rattled down that highway to never come back again