How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too
They tell ya to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam
To move to a new location and find myself a home
I can't go back to the homestead, the shack no longer stands
They said I was uneeded, had no claim to the land
They said, "Come on, get moving, it's the only thing for you"
But how can you keep moving unless you migrate too
Now if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway
The Board of Sanitation says, "Sorry, you can't stay"
Come on, come on, get moving it's their everlasting cry
Can't stay, can't go back, can't migrate, so where the hell am I
How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too
They tell ya to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam
To move to a new location and find myself a home
They tell ya to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam
To move to a new location and find myself a home
I can't go back to the homestead, the shack no longer stands
They said I was uneeded, had no claim to the land
They said, "Come on, get moving, it's the only thing for you"
But how can you keep moving unless you migrate too
Now if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway
The Board of Sanitation says, "Sorry, you can't stay"
Come on, come on, get moving it's their everlasting cry
Can't stay, can't go back, can't migrate, so where the hell am I
How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too
They tell ya to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam
To move to a new location and find myself a home
Contributed by Alessandro - 2010/2/8 - 13:38
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Compare in "Songs From the Depression" dei New Lost City Ramblers (Folkways Records, 1959)
Riproposta da Ry Cooder nell'album "Into the Purple Valley" del 1972.
Sis Cunningham, musicista e fondatrice del Broadside Magazine, era originaria dell'Oklahoma. E questa canzone si riferisce proprio all'emigrazione dei farmers dall'Oklahoma durante il Dust Bowl, il lungo periodo di siccità che - come se non fosse bastata la Grande Depressione - flagellò le pianure americane tra il 1930 e il 1940. Gli "okies", i "tex" e gli "arkies", che fuggivano in massa dalle loro terre devastate dall'immane disastro ecologico per raggiungere la California lungo la Route 66, non venivano certo accolti a braccia aperte sul loro cammino... A quell'epoca dolorosa John Steinbeck dedicò il suo "The Grapes of Wrath" e la fotografa Dorothea Lange uno dei suoi servizi più famosi.
Si veda anche The Ghost Of Tom Joad