Merle Haggard - Tulare Dust guitar chord

Tulare Dust

By Merle Haggard

D G

Tulare dust in a farm boy’s nose

A D

Wonderin where the freight train goes

D G

Standin in a field by the railroad tracks

E7 A

Cursin the strap on my cotton sack

D G

I can see mom and dad with shoulders low

A D

Both of them pickin on a double row

D G

They do it for a livin because they must

A D

That’s life like it is on the Tulare dust

E

The California sun was something new

A

That winter we arrived in 42

D G

And I can still remember how my Daddy cussed

A D

The tumbleweeds here in the Tulare dust

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E

The valley fever was a common fate

A

To the farm workers here in the golden state

D G

And I miss Oklahoma but I’ll stay if I must

A D

And help make a livin in the Tulare dust

Repeat 1st verse