Black Sunday (storm)


The "Black Sunday" dust storm approaches Spearman in northern Texas, April 14, 1935.


Black Sunday dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, on April 14th, 1935.

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In popular culture

Musicians and songwriters began to reflect the Dust Bowl and the events of the 1930s in their music. Woody Guthrie, a singer-songwriter from Oklahoma, wrote a variety of songs documenting his experiences living during the era of dust storms. Several were collected in his first album Dust Bowl Ballads. One of them, Great Dust Storm, describes the events of Black Sunday. An excerpt of the lyrics follows:

On the 14th day of April of 1935,
There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky.
You could see that dust storm comin', the cloud looked deathlike black,
And through our mighty nation, it left a dreadful track.
From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line,
Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande,
It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down,
We thought it was our judgement, we thought it was our doom.

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The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)

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The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) · Woody Guthrie

Dust Bowl Ballads

℗ Originally released 1964. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Released on: 2000-07-10

Producer: Frank Driggs

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