The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) - Woody Guthrie

The Great Dust Bowl - Woody Guthrie
On the 14th day of April of 1935
There struck the worst of dust
Storms that ever filled the sky
You could see that dust storm comin'
The cloud looked deathlike black
And through our mighty nation
It left a dreadful track
From Oklahoma City to
He Arizona line
Dakota and Nebraska to
The lazy Rio Grande
It fell across our city like a curtain
Of black rolled down
We thought it was our judgement
We thought it was our doom
The radio reported we listened with alarm
The wild and windy actions of
This great mysterious storm;
From Albuquerque and Clovis and all New Mexico
They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw
From old Dodge City Kansas
The dust had rung their knell
And a few more comrades
Sleeping on top of old Boot Hill
From Denver Colorado
they said it blew so strong
They thought that they could hold out
But they didn't know how long
Our relatives were huddled
Into their oil boom shacks
And the children they was cryin' as
It whistled through the cracks
And the family it was crowded into their little room
They thought the world had ended
And they thought it was their doom
The storm took place at sundown
It lasted through the night
When we looked out next morning
we saw a terrible sight
We saw outside our window
Where wheat fields they had grown
Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown
It covered up our fences it covered up our barns
It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm
We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in
We rattled down that
Highway to never come back again