Dust Bowl Refugee Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays549

Dust Bowl Refugee by Woody Guthrie is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
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  			           C       C       C      C 
e  --------------------------------| 
B  --------------------------------| 
G  -0------------------------------| 
D  ---3-2-------------0h2----------| 
A  ------------3--------------3----| 
E  --------------------------------| 

           C       C       C      G 
e  --------------------------------| 
B  --------------------------------| 
G  -0------------------------------| 
D  ---3-2-------------0h2----------| 
A  ------------3-------------------| 
E  ----------------------------3---| 

           C       C          C      C 
e  ------------------------------------| 
B  ------------------------------------| 
G  -0-----------------0----------------| 
D  ---3-2---------------3-2------------| 
A  ------------3-----------------3-----| 
E  ------------------------------------| 


           C       G         C 
e  ---------------------------| 
B  ---------------------------| 
G  -----2-------------0-------| 
D  ---3-----------------2-3---| 
A  -3-------------------------| 
E  ------------3--------------| 
 

verse 1 
C                    C 
I'm a dust bowl refugee, 
C                    G 
Just a dust bowl refugee, 
C                   C 
From that dust bowl to the peach bowl, 
C               G                 C 
Now that peach fuzz is a-killin' me. 

verse 2 
C                    C 
'Cross the mountains to the sea, 
C                    G 
Come the wife and kids and me. 
C                   C 
It's a hot old dusty highway 
C           G         C 
For a dust bowl refugee. 

verse 3 
C                    C 
Hard, it's always been that way, 
C                    G 
Here today and on our way 
C                   C 
Down that mountain, 'cross the desert, 
C           G         C 
Just a dust bowl refugee. 

verse 4 
C                    C 
We are ramblers, so they say, 
C                    G 
We are only here today, 
C                   C 
Then we travel with the seasons, 
C               G       C 
We're the dust bowl refugees. 

Verse 5 
C                    C 
From the south land and the drought land, 
C                    G 
Come the wife and kids and me, 
C                   C 
And this old world is a hard world 
C          G        C 
For a dust bowl refugee. 

Verse 6 
C                    C 
Yes, we ramble and we roam 
C                    G 
And the highway that's our home, 
C                   C 
It's a never-ending highway 
C         G         C 
For a dust bowl refugee. 

Verse 7 
C                    C 
Yes, we wander and we work 
C                    G 
In your crops and in your fruit, 
C                   C 
Like the whirlwinds on the desert 
C               G        C 
That's the dust bowl refugees. 

Verse 8 
C                    C 
I'm a dust bowl refugee, 
C                    G 
I'm a dust bowl refugee, 
C                   C 
And I wonder will I always 
C        G         C 
Be a dust bowl refugee? 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante