So Long It's Been
Good To Know You Woody Guthrie Ive sung this song but Ill sing it again Of the place that I lived on the wild windy plains In the month called April, county called Grain And heres what all the good people are sayin: So long, its been good to know you (3) This dusty old dust is a-getting my home An Ive gotta be driftin along A dust storm hitting it hit like thunder It dusted us over and it covered a thunder Blocked out the traffic and blocked out the sun Straight for home all the people did run, Singin: We talked of the end of the world and then Weve sang a song and then sang it again We sat there an hour and not said a word And then this word would be heard: Sweethearts sat in the dark and sparked They hugged and kissed in that dusty old dark They sighed and cried, hugged and kissed Instead of marriage they talked like this: Honey Now the telephone rang and it jumped off the wall That was the preacher a-making his call He said: time to render, its maybe the end And youve got your last chance of salvation of stand! The church as was jammed and the church as was packed And that dusty old dust storm blowed so black Preacher could not read a word of his text And he folded his bags and took off collects and said... as recorded on my CD alles-uke.de |