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The Great Dust Storm - 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
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