Dust Bowl Children
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Lyrics:
My father's name was Hannibal, Mama was Hanna-Mariah.
Everything we owned got all burned up in the great depression fire
Strip mines and one crop farming drained the green earth dry.
We lost it all till only love was left, and that was the one thing money can't buy.
We're all Dust Bowl Children
Singin' the dust bowl song
Well, the crops won't grow,
And the dust just blows
When the green fields are gone.
When the green grass growing fields are gone.
When the green fields are gone.
When the green grass growing fields are gone.
Well, they said in California, there's work of every kind.
The only work that I got out there was waiting on a welfare line.
Once I had a dollar, once I had a dream.
Now all the work is being done by a big ol' machine.
The 'Dust Bowl' refers to conditions that struck a section of the 'Great Plains' or 'Great American desert' in the early 1930s. Following years of overcultivation and generally poor land management in the 1920s, the region - which receives an average rainfall of less than 500mm in a typical year - suffered a severe drought in the early 1930s that lasted several years. The region's exposed topsoil, robbed of the water-retaining roots of its native grasses, was carried off by heavy spring winds.
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"Black blizzards" of windblown soil blocked out the sun and piled the dirt in drifts. Occasionally the dust storms swept completely across the country to the East Coast.
Thousands of families were forced to leave the Dust Bowl at the height of the Great Depression. Many of these displaced people undertook the long trek to California.Sources: Metrolyrics, Encyclopaedia Britannica
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