Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Refugee (Guitar)

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All Credit to Original poster I simply copied chords to all verses for east of reading on scrolling screen. ------------------------------ 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, comments/suggestions. Intro/Between Verses Melody (Chord names above refer to the chord you should be holding/strumming while playing the melody):

           C       C       C      C
e  --------------------------------|
B  --------------------------------|
G  -0------------------------------|
D  ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A  ------------3--------------3----|
E  --------------------------------|

           C       C       C      G
e  --------------------------------|
B  --------------------------------|
G  -0------------------------------|
D  ---3-2-------------0h2----------|
A  ------------3-------------------|
E  ----------------------------3---|

           C       C          C      C
e  ------------------------------------|
B  ------------------------------------|
G  -0-----------------0----------------|
D  ---3-2---------------3-2------------|
A  ------------3-----------------3-----|
E  ------------------------------------|

           C       G         C
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 1

C                    C
I'm a dust bowl refugee,

C                    G
Just a dust bowl refugee,

C                   C
From that dust bowl to the peach bowl,

C               G                 C
Now that peach fuzz is a-killin' me.

Verse 2

C                    C
'Cross the mountains to the sea,

C                    G
Come the wife and kids and me.

C                   C
It's a hot old dusty highway

C           G         C
For a dust bowl refugee.

Verse 3

C                    C
Hard, it's always been that way,

C                    G
Here today and on our way

C                   C
Down that mountain, 'cross the desert,

C           G         C
Just a dust bowl refugee.

Verse 4

C                    C
We are ramblers, so they say,

C                    G
We are only here today,

C                   C
Then we travel with the seasons,

C               G       C
We're the dust bowl refugees.

Verse 5

C                    C
From the south land and the drought land,

C                    G
Come the wife and kids and me,

C                   C
And this old world is a hard world

C          G        C
For a dust bowl refugee.

Verse 6

C                    C
Yes, we ramble and we roam

C                    G
And the highway that's our home,

C                   C
It's a never-ending highway

C         G         C
For a dust bowl refugee.

Verse 7

C                    C
Yes, we wander and we work

C                    G
In your crops and in your fruit,

C                   C
Like the whirlwinds on the desert

C               G        C
That's the dust bowl refugees.

Verse 8

C                    C
I'm a dust bowl refugee,

C                    G
I'm a dust bowl refugee,

C                   C
And I wonder will I always

C        G         C
Be a dust bowl refugee?