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