[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:09.67]Long about nineteen twentynine [00:11.68]I owned a little farm  was a doin' just fine [00:15.67]Raised a little row crop raised some [00:17.80]Wheat Sold it over at the county seat [00:20.70]Drawed the money  Raised a family [00:26.57]But the dust came along [00:27.55]And the price went down [00:28.50]Didn't have the money when the bank come around; [00:32.04]Tumble weeds and the black dust blowed [00:33.88]So we hit the trail to the land where the waters floed [00:37.47]Way out across yonder somewhere [00:42.00]The hot old rocks and the desert [00:43.77]Sand Made my mind run back to the dust bowl land [00:46.98]But my hopes was high and we rolled [00:48.55]Along To the Columbia River up in Washington [00:51.83]Lots of good rain  Little piece of land [00:55.73]Feller might grow something [00:59.11]We settled down on some cut [01:00.46]Over land Pulled up brush and the stumps by hand [01:04.16]Hot sun burnt up my first crop of wheat [01:06.18]And the river down the canyon just 500 feet [01:09.53]Might as we of been 50 miles [01:12.52]Couldn't get no water [01:15.29]We loaded our belongings and we lit out for town [01:17.73]Seen the old vacant houses and farms all around [01:21.78]And folks a leaving out [01:22.91]If you're asking me [01:23.65]That's as lonesome as sight as a feller can see [01:27.80]Good land  Grow anything you plant [01:31.81]Get the moisture [01:36.29]I struck a lumber town and heard the big saw sing [01:38.80]And when business is good  why lumber's king; [01:42.97]I went to lookin' for a job but the man said no [01:45.02]So we hit the skids on the old skid row [01:47.73]Traipsing up and down [01:50.75]Chasing a bite to eat  Kids hungry Heard about a job [01:59.07]So we hit the wheat Made about enough for the kids to eat [02:02.28]Picked in the berries  gathered in the fruit [02:04.00]Hops  peaches  and the apples  too [02:07.37]Slept in just about everything except a good warm bed [02:14.67]Been to Arizona  been to California  too [02:19.38]Found the people was plenty but the jobs was few; [02:23.49]Well maybe it's like the feller said [02:25.83]When they ain't enough arok  well [02:27.37]Business is dead  Sorta ailin' [02:32.80]Ain't no money a changin' hands [02:36.45]Just people changing places [02:40.37]Folks wastin' gasoline a'chasin' around [02:46.33]Now what we need is a great big dam [02:48.50]To throw a lot of water out acrost that land [02:52.09]People could work and the stuff would grow [02:54.13]And you could wave goodbye to the old [02:56.11]Skid Row [03:00.49]Work hard  raise all kinds of stuff  kids  too [03:09.32]Take it easy