Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) - Woody Guthrie

[00:03.15]On the 14th day of
[00:05.52]April of 1935
[00:10.24]There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky
[00:17.04]You could see that dust storm comin'
[00:20.58]The cloud looked deathlike black
[00:23.85]And through our mighty nation
[00:27.41]It left a dreadful track
[00:30.78]From oklahoma
[00:32.8]City to the
[00:34.41]Arizona line
[00:37.6]Dakota and
[00:39.41]Nebraska to the lazy
[00:42.21]Rio grande
[00:44.26]It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down
[00:51.11]We thought it was our judgement
[00:54.65]We thought it was our doom
[00:58.02]The radio reported
[01:01.33]We listened with alarm
[01:04.78]The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm
[01:11.57]From albuquerque and
[01:13.61]Clovis
[01:14.979996]And all
[01:15.99]New mexico
[01:18.37]They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw
[01:25.13]From old dodge
[01:26.37]City
[01:27.07]Kansas
[01:28.56]The dust had rung their knell
[01:31.78]And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old
[01:37.06]Boot hill
[01:38.71]From denver
[01:39.91]Colorado
[01:42.18]They said it blew so strong
[01:45.520004]They thought that they could hold out
[01:49.0]But they didn't know how long
[01:52.33]Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks
[01:59.03]And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks
[02:05.88]And the family it was crowded into their little room
[02:12.77]They thought the world had ended
[02:15.93]And they thought it was their doom
[02:19.81]The storm took place at sundown
[02:22.86]It lasted through the night
[02:26.23]When we looked out next morning
[02:29.62]We saw a terrible sight
[02:32.97]We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown
[02:40.66]Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown
[02:47.4]It covered up our fences
[02:50.9]It covered up our barns
[02:54.36]It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm
[03:01.15]We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in
[03:07.9]We rattled down that highway to never come back again