Tonart: G major
Verse 1
G
C
D
G
Back in 1927
C
D
I had a little farm
and I call that heaven
G
C
And the prices up and the rain come down
D
And I hauled my crops all into town
C
D
Bought clothes and groceries
G
D
Rared back, fed the kids
C
D
G
Verse 2
C
Rain quit and the wind got high
D
And a black old dust storm filled the sky
G
And I swapped my farm for
D
And I poured it full of this
gas- i- line
G
And it started
C
G
Rocking and a- rolling
D
Out of the Dust Bowl and across
the mountains
And away over toward
C
D
G
California
C
D
G
C
D
Verse 3
G
It was a- way up yonder
D
I had a hot motor and a heavy load
G
And I was going pretty fast
C
And I wasn't even stopping
D
Just a- bouncing up and down like
popcorn popping
C
Sort of a nervous bust down
there of some kind or other
D
There was a feller there
A mechanic feller
Charged me thirteen dollars
Said it was engine trouble
G
C
D
G
Verse 4
C
Yeah, way up yonder on a mountain road
D
A- way high up in a piney wood
G
C
And I give that rolling Ford a shove
D
And I was going to coast
as fair as I could
G
D
Was a hairpin turn
Verse 5
I didn't make it
G
C
Man alive, I'm telling you
D
The fiddles and the guitars really flew
G
C
That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
D
And it flew halfway around
the world
G
C
Scattered wives, childrens
D
G
C
All over the side of that mountain
D
G
Verse 6
C
D
G
C
Well, we got out to the West Coast broke
D
So dadgum hungry I thought I'd croak
G
C
And I bummed up a spud or two
D
My wife fixed up a tater stew
G
C
D
We poured the kids full of it
G
D
It was a mighty thin stew, though
G
You could read a magazine right through it
D
Am
C
Always I figured that if that stew
D
had been just a little bit thinner
Some of them there politicians
A
D
G
could've seen through it
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