[00:03.840]On the 14th day of April of 1935
[00:10.830]There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky
[00:17.660]You could see that dust storm comin', the cloud looked deathlike black
[00:24.380]And through our mighty nation, it left a dreadful track
[00:30.960]From Oklahoma City
[00:34.450]To the Arizona line
[00:37.890]Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande
[00:44.720]It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down
[00:51.400]We thought it was our judgement, we thought it was our doom
[00:58.180]The radio reported, we listened with alarm
[01:05.220]The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm
[01:11.890]From Albuquerque and Clovis
[01:15.530]And all New Mexico
[01:18.670]They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw
[01:25.500]From old Dodge city, Kansas,
[01:28.840]the dust had rung their knell
[01:32.230]And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill
[01:39.210]From Denver, Colorado, they said it blew so stron
[01:45.730]They thought that they could hold out, but they didn't know how long
[01:52.560]Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks
[01:59.440]And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks
[02:06.270]And the family it was crowded into their little room
[02:13.050]They thought the world had ended, and they thought it was their doom
[02:19.830]The storm took place at sundown, it lasted through the night
[02:26.500]When we looked out next morning, we saw a terrible sight
[02:33.520]We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown
[02:42.130]Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown
[02:48.810]It covered up our fences, it covered up our barns
[02:55.550]It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm
[03:02.020]We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in
[03:09.260]We rattled down that highway to never come back again