| I just blowed in, and I got them dust bowl blues
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| I just blowed in, and I got them dust bowl blues
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| I just blowed in, and I’ll blow back out again
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| I guess you’ve heard about ev’ry kind of blues
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| I guess you’ve heard about ev’ry kind of blues
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| But when the dust gets high, you can’t even see the sky
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| I’ve seen the dust so black that I couldn’t see a thing
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| I’ve seen the dust so black that I couldn’t see a thing
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| And the wind so cold, boy, it nearly cut your water off
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| I seen the wind so high that it blowed my fences down
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| I’ve seen the wind so high that it blowed my fences down
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| Buried my tractor six feet underground
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| Well, it turned my farm into a pile of sand
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| Yes, it turned my farm into a pile of sand
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| I had to hit that road with a bottle in my hand
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| I spent ten years down in that old dust bowl
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| I spent ten years down in that old dust bowl
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| When you get that dust pneumony, boy, it’s time to go
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| I had a gal, and she was young and sweet
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| I had a gal, and she was young and sweet
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| But a dust storm buried her sixteen hundred feet
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| She was a good gal, long, tall and stout
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| Yes, she was a good gal, long, tall and stout
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| I had to get a steam shovel just to dig my darlin' out
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| These dusty blues are the dustiest ones I know
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| These dusty blues are the dustiest ones I know
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| Buried head over heels in the black old dust
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| I had to pack up and go
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| An' I just blowed in, an' I’ll soon blow out again |