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):
CCCC
e --------------------------------|
B --------------------------------|
G -0------------------------------|
D ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A ------------3--------------3----|
E --------------------------------|
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CCCG
e --------------------------------|
B --------------------------------|
G -0------------------------------|
D ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A ------------3-------------------|
E ----------------------------3---|
CCCC
e ------------------------------------|
B ------------------------------------|
G -0-----------------0----------------|
D ---3-2---------------3-2------------|
A ------------3-----------------3-----|
E ------------------------------------|
CGC
e ---------------------------|
B ---------------------------|
G -----2-------------0-------|
D ---3-----------------2-3---|
A -3-------------------------|
E ------------3--------------|
For the verses he seems to only use the C and G chords with his usual alternating bass
and some hammer ons.
Verse 1CC
I'm a dust bowl refugee,
CG
Just a dust bowl refugee,
CC
From that dust bowl to the peach bowl,
CGC
Now that peach fuzz is a-killin' me.
Verse 2CC
'Cross the mountains to the sea,
CG
Come the wife and kids and me.
CC
It's a hot old dusty highway
CGC
For a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 3CC
Hard, it's always been that way,
CG
Here today and on our way
CC
Down that mountain, 'cross the desert,
CGC
Just a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 4CC
We are ramblers, so they say,
CG
We are only here today,
CC
Then we travel with the seasons,
CGC
We're the dust bowl refugees.
Verse 5CC
From the south land and the drought land,
CG
Come the wife and kids and me,
CC
And this old world is a hard world
CGC
For a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 6CC
Yes, we ramble and we roam
CG
And the highway that's our home,
CC
It's a never-ending highway
CGC
For a dust bowl refugee.
Verse 7CC
Yes, we wander and we work
CG
In your crops and in your fruit,
CC
Like the whirlwinds on the desert
CGC
That's the dust bowl refugees.
Verse 8CC
I'm a dust bowl refugee,
CG
I'm a dust bowl refugee,
CC
And I wonder will I always
CGC
Be a dust bowl refugee?
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