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On the 14th day of April of 1935 |
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There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky |
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You could see that dust storm comin', the cloud looked deathlike black |
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And through our mighty nation, it left a dreadful track |
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From Oklahoma City |
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To the Arizona line |
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Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande |
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It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down |
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We thought it was our judgement, we thought it was our doom |
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The radio reported, we listened with alarm |
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The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm |
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From Albuquerque and Clovis |
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And all New Mexico |
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They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw |
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From old Dodge city, Kansas, |
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the dust had rung their knell |
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And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill |
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From Denver, Colorado, they said it blew so stron |
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They thought that they could hold out, but they didn't know how long |
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Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks |
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And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks |
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And the family it was crowded into their little room |
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They thought the world had ended, and they thought it was their doom |
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The storm took place at sundown, it lasted through the night |
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When we looked out next morning, we saw a terrible sight |
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We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown |
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Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown |
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It covered up our fences, it covered up our barns |
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It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm |
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We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in |
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We rattled down that highway to never come back again |
