E|------------------------------|
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):
CCCCe E|------------------------------|--|
B E|------------------------------|--|
G -0E|------------------------------||
D ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A ------------3--------------3----|
E E|------------------------------|--|CCCGe E|------------------------------|--|
B E|------------------------------|--|
G -0E|------------------------------||
D ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A ------------3-------------------|
E ----------------------------3---|CCCCe E|------------------------------|------|
B E|------------------------------|------|
G -0-----------------0----------------|
D ---3-2---------------3-2------------|
A ------------3-----------------3-----|
E E|------------------------------|------|CGCE|---------------------------|
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 1
CC
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 2
CC
'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 3
CC
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 4
CC
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 5
CC
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 6
CC
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 7
CC
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 8
CC
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?