Tonalità: G major
Verse 1
B
E
F#
B
Back in 1927
E
F#
I had a little farm
and I call that heaven
B
E
And the prices up and the rain come down
F#
And I hauled my crops all into town
B
I got the money
E
F#
Bought clothes and groceries
B
F#
Rared back, fed the kids
B
And raised me a family
E
F#
B
Verse 2
E
Rain quit and the wind got high
F#
And a black old dust storm filled the sky
B
And I swapped my farm for
E
a Ford machine
F#
And I poured it full of this
gas- i- line
B
And it started
E
B
Rocking and a- rolling
F#
Out of the Dust Bowl and across
the mountains
And away over toward
B
that old Peach Bowl
E
F#
B
California
E
F#
B
E
F#
Verse 3
B
It was a- way up yonder
E
on a mountain road
F#
I had a hot motor and a heavy load
B
And I was going pretty fast
E
And I wasn't even stopping
F#
Just a- bouncing up and down like
popcorn popping
B
I had a breakdown
E
Sort of a nervous bust down
there of some kind or other
F#
There was a feller there
A mechanic feller
Charged me thirteen dollars
Said it was engine trouble
B
E
F#
B
Verse 4
E
Yeah, way up yonder on a mountain road
F#
A- way high up in a piney wood
B
E
And I give that rolling Ford a shove
F#
And I was going to coast
as fair as I could
B
Commenced to coasting
E
Picking up speed
B
F#
Was a hairpin turn
Verse 5
I didn't make it
B
E
Man alive, I'm telling you
F#
The fiddles and the guitars really flew
B
E
That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
F#
And it flew halfway around
the world
B
E
Scattered wives, childrens
F#
B
E
All over the side of that mountain
F#
B
Verse 6
E
F#
B
E
Well, we got out to the West Coast broke
F#
So dadgum hungry I thought I'd croak
B
E
And I bummed up a spud or two
F#
My wife fixed up a tater stew
B
E
F#
We poured the kids full of it
B
F#
It was a mighty thin stew, though
B
You could read a magazine right through it
F#
C#m
E
Always I figured that if that stew
F#
had been just a little bit thinner
Some of them there politicians
C#
F#
B
could've seen through it
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