| It’s a mighty hard road that my poor hands have hoed
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| My poor feet have traveled a hot, dusty road
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| Out of your dust bowls and westward we rode
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| Your deserts were hot and your mountains were cold
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| I’ve wandered all over this green growing land
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| Wherever your crops were, I’ve lent you my hands
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| On the edge of your city you’ll see me and then, I come with the dust and I go
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| with the wind
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| California, Arizona, I’ve worked all your crops
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| Then it’s North up to Oregon to gather your hops
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| Dig the beets from your ground. |
| Cut the grapes from your vines
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| To set on your table that light sparkling wine
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| Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground from the Grand Coulee dam where
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| the waters run down
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| Every state in the Union this migrant has been. |
| I come with the dust and I go
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| with the wind
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| It’s always we ramble that river and I all along your green valley,
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| I’ll work 'til I die
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| And I’ll travel this road until death sets me free for my pastures of plenty
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| must always be green
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| I come with the dust and I go with the wind |