Dust Bowl Ballads

Listening to the Boss Singing The Ghost of Tom Joad, Imagining the Okies as they Travelled their Desolation Road. Word Pictures by Steinbeck, Dust Bowl Ballads by Guthrie, Green Pastures Of Plenty Pretty Boy Floyd, Doh Ray Mi. Ecological disaster, Dust and drought, Trees chopped down Good land farmed out. Then came the winds That blew the soil away Followed by the Bankers Who took their land away. Pack up lock stock and barrel In the trucks and on the way To the promised land of plenty The fabled Californ-ia So long it’s been good to know you And then like the family Joad Driven by need and poverty It’s off and on down the road. With Global warming progressing As more habitable land disappears Will a new Steinbeck and Guthrie Chronicle new Grapes Of Wrath years Will there be a new Springsteen To sing about a new Tom Joad As they join the new exodus on Their new desolation road.