Woody Guthrie – Blowin Down This Old Dusty Road Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (Guitar)

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Dust bowl ballads Victor Records 1940 This version of the song uses the Woodie Guthrie Lyrics from the Dust Bowl Ballads recording The chords and style of play have been adapted based on the more traditional Going Down the Road Feelin Bad done by a wide variety of musicians from Woody Guthrie, Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Cliff Carslile (with yodeling), Roy Clark and Gatemouth Brown and many others country, blues rock and roll, Soul and Gospel [Tuning: Standard]
[Riff] (played at the end of the first 2 lines of each verse and chorus
note that the Woodie Guthrie original does not emphasize the riff or C#m
in the turnaround
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[Chorus]
E
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road (Riff)

A                                 E
I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road,  (Riff)

A                                 E           C#m
I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord, Lord,

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Verse 1]
E
I'm a-goin' where the water taste like wine (Riff)

A                                      E
I'm a-goin' where the water taste like wine (Riff)

A                                      E     C#m
I'm a-goin' where the water taste like wine, Lord

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Verse 2]
E
I'm a-goin' where them dust storms never blow (Riff)

A                                       E
I'm a-goin' where them dust storms never blow (Riff)

A                                       E            C#m
I'm a-goin' where them dust storms never blow, blow, blow

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Verse 3]
E
They say I'm a dust bowl refugee (Riff)

A                             E
They say I'm a dust bowl refugee (Riff)

A                            E    C#m
They say I'm a dust bowl refugee, Lord

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Verse 4]
E
I'm a-lookin' for a job at honest pay (Riff)

A                                 E
I'm a-lookin' for a job at honest pay (Riff)

A                                 E         C#m
I'm a-lookin' for a job at honest pay, Lord Lord

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Verse 5]
E
My children need three square meals a day (Riff)

A                                         E
Now my children need three square meals a day (Riff)

A                                     E    C#m
My children need three square meals a day, Lord

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Verse 6]
E
It takes a ten-dollar shoe to fit my feet (Riff)

A                                    E
It takes a ten-dollar shoe to fit my feet (Riff)

A                                     E         C#m
It takes a ten-dollar shoe to fit my feet, Lord Lord

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Verse 7]
E
Your a-two-dollar shoe hurts my feet

A                                         E
Your a-two-dollar shoe hurts my feet

A                                 E         C#m
Yes your two doller shoe hurts my feet Lord Lord

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
[Chorus]
E
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road

A                         E
I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road

A                                 E            C#m
I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord, Lord,

E                      B7           E
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
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