Pete Seeger - My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away) lyrics

When they opened up the strip I
Was young and full of zip
I wanted some place to call my own
And so I made the race
And staked me out a place
And settled down along the Cimarron

It blowed away, it blowed away
My Oklahoma home, it blowed away
It looked so green and fair when
I built my shanty there
But my Oklahoma home, it blowed away

I planted wheat and oats
Got some chickens and some shoats
Aimed to have some ham and
Eggs to feed my face
Got a mule to pull the plow
Got an old red muley cow
And got a fancy mortgage on the place
It blowed away, it blowed away
All the crops I planted blowed away
You can't grow any grain if
You ain't got any rain
All except the mortgage blowed away

It looked so green and fair
When I built my shanty there
I figured I was all set for life
I put on my Sunday best
With my fancy scalloped vest
And went to town and picked me out a wife

She blowed away, she blowed away
My Oklahoma woman blowed away
Mister as I bent and kissed her
She was picked up by a twister
My Oklahoma woman blowed away

Then I was left alone
A-listenin' to the moan
Of the wind around the corners of my shack
So I took off down the road
When the south wind blowed
A travelin' with the wind at my back

I blowed away, I blowed away
Chasin' a dust cloud up ahead
Once it looked so green and fair
Now it's up there in the air
My Oklahoma farm is overhead

Now I'm always close to home
No matter where I roam
For Oklahoma dust is everywhere
Makes no difference where I'm walkin'
I can hear my chickens squawkin'
I can hear my wife a talkin' in the air
It blowed away, it blowed away
My Oklahoma home blowed away
But my home is always near
It's in the atmosphere
My Oklahoma home that blowed away

I'm a roamin' Oklahoman
But I'm always close to home
And I'll never get homesick 'til I die
No matter where I'm found
My home is all around
My Oklahoma home is in the sky

It blowed away, it blowed away
My farm down upon the Cimarron
But all around the world
Wherever dust is whirled
Some is from my Oklahoma home

It blowed away, it blowed away
My Oklahoma home blowed away
Oh it's up there in the sky
In that dust cloud rolling by
My Oklahoma home is blowed away