The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)

On the 14th day of April of 1935
 There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky
 You could see that dust storm comin'
 The cloud looked deathlike black
 And through our mighty nation it left a dreadful track
 From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line
 Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande
 It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down
 We thought it was our judgement, we thought it was our doom
 The radio reported, we listened with alarm
 The wild and windy actions of this great, mysterious storm
 From Albuquerque and Clovis and all New Mexico
 They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw
 From old Dodge City, Kansas, the dust had rung their knell
 And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill
 From Denver, Colorado, they said it blew so strong
 They thought that they could hold out
 But they didn't know how long
 Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks
 And the children, they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks
 And the family it was crowded into their little room
 They thought the world had ended
 And they thought it was their doom
 Storm took place at sundown, it lasted through the night
 When we looked out next morning, we saw a terrible sight
 We saw outside our window, where wheat fields, they had grown
 Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown
 It covered up our fences, it covered up our barns
 It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm
 We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in
 We rattled down that highway to never come back again