Dust Bowl Children Chords by Alison Krauss & Union Station

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My father's name was Hannibal, mama was a Hannibal, _ _ _ everything beyond got all [Am] burned
up [Bb] in the Great Depression.
[G] _ Fine, strip mines, one crop farming, drained the green earth [C] dry. _
_ Lost it all, only love was left and [Gm] that was one thing mommy [G] can't buy. _ _ _ _ _
We're [Gm] all _ _ _ _ _ _ children _ _ [G] _ _
singing [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] a gospel _ _ song and the crop [Gm] won't grow _ _ _ when the dust just
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falls.
When the green _ fields are _ [C] gone, when the green grass growing [Eb] fields [G] are gone, _ when the green
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fields are [C] gone, when the green grass growing [G] fields are gone.
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_ _ _ They said in California _ _ _ _ there was work of every [Gm]
kind, well the only [C] job I ever got out
[Bb] there was waiting on a welfare [G] _ line. _ _ _ _
_ Once I had a dollar, _ _ _ _ once I had a dream, [C] _
but now all [G] the work is being [C] done [Gm] by a big old [G] machine.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] We're all _ _ _ dust bowl children _ _ _ [C] singing _ _ _ _ _ _ a [G] dust bowl song _ and _ the crop [C] won't grow _ _ _ when the
[G] dust just falls. _ _ _
_ When the green _ fields are gone, [C] _ when the green [G] grass growing fields are gone, _ when the green
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fields are gone, when the green grass growing [G] fields are gone.
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