Dust Bowl Children Lyrics - Paper Airplane - Alison Krauss & Union Station

My father's name was Hannibal 

My mother was Hanna Maria 

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, only love is left 

And that's the one thing money can't buy. 

[Chorus] 

We're all Dust Bowl children 

Singing a Dust Bowl song 

And 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. 

They said in California 

There was work of every kind 

Well the only job I got out there 

Was waiting in a welfare line. 

Once I had a dollar 

Once I had a dream 

But now all the work gets done 

by a big ol' machine. 

[Chorus] 

We're all Dust Bowl children 

Singing a Dust Bowl song 

And 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.