The Great Dust Storm

Lyrics

On the fourteenth 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 And Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande It fell across our cities like a curtain of black rolled down We thought it was our judgement And we thought it was our doom Come down The radio reported, we listened with alarm The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm Our relatives were huddled into thеir oil boom shacks And the children, they wеre crying as it whistled through the cracks 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 We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in We rattled down the highway never to come back again Never to come back again