Chords with lyrics
All Credit to Original poster
I simply copied chords to all verses for east of reading on scrolling screen.
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This is my attempt at a tab for Woody Guthrie's song "Dust Bowl Refugees" as
played on disc 3 of the library of congress recordings. (Key of C, no capo,
standard tuning.) This is my first tab so please post some
comments/suggestions.
Intro/Between Verses Melody (Chord names above refer to the chord you should be
holding/strumming while playing the melody):
C majorC C majorC C majorC C majorC
e --------------------------------|
BB --------------------------------|
G+G -0------------------------------|
D MajorD ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A augmentedA ------------3--------------3----|
E MajorE --------------------------------|
C majorC C majorC C majorC G+G
e --------------------------------|
BB --------------------------------|
G+G -0------------------------------|
D MajorD ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A augmentedA ------------3-------------------|
E MajorE ----------------------------3---|
C majorC C majorC C majorC C majorC
e ------------------------------------|
BB ------------------------------------|
G+G -0-----------------0----------------|
D MajorD ---3-2---------------3-2------------|
A augmentedA ------------3-----------------3-----|
E MajorE ------------------------------------|
C majorC G+G C majorC
e ---------------------------|
BB ---------------------------|
G+G -----2-------------0-------|
D MajorD ---3-----------------2-3---|
A augmentedA -3-------------------------|
E MajorE ------------3--------------|
For the verses he seems to only use the C majorC and G+G chords with his usual alternating bass
and some hammer ons.
Verse 1
C majorC C majorC
I'm a dust bowl refugee,
C majorC G+G
Just a dust bowl refugee,
C majorC C majorC
From that dust bowl to the peach bowl,
C majorC G+G C majorC
Now that peach fuzz is a-killin' me.
Verse 2
C majorC C majorC
'Cross the mountains to the sea,
C majorC G+G
Come the wife and kids and me.
C majorC C majorC
It's a hot old dusty highway
C majorC G+G C majorC
For a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 3
C majorC C majorC
Hard, it's always been that way,
C majorC G+G
Here today and on our way
C majorC C majorC
Down that mountain, 'cross the desert,
C majorC G+G C majorC
Just a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 4
C majorC C majorC
We are ramblers, so they say,
C majorC G+G
We are only here today,
C majorC C majorC
Then we travel with the seasons,
C majorC G+G C majorC
We're the dust bowl refugees.
Verse 5
C majorC C majorC
From the south land and the drought land,
C majorC G+G
Come the wife and kids and me,
C majorC C majorC
And this old world is a hard world
C majorC G+G C majorC
For a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 6
C majorC C majorC
Yes, we ramble and we roam
C majorC G+G
And the highway that's our home,
C majorC C majorC
It's a never-ending highway
C majorC G+G C majorC
For a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 7
C majorC C majorC
Yes, we wander and we work
C majorC G+G
In your crops and in your fruit,
C majorC C majorC
Like the whirlwinds on the desert
C majorC G+G C majorC
That's the dust bowl refugees.
Verse 8
C majorC C majorC
I'm a dust bowl refugee,
C majorC G+G
I'm a dust bowl refugee,
C majorC C majorC
And I wonder will I always
C majorC G+G C majorC
Be a dust bowl refugee?