Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Great Dust Strom, artist - Woody Guthrie.
Date of issue: 17.08.2021
Song language: English
The Great Dust Strom |
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 the 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 |