[ti:My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away - Previously Unreleased]
[ar:Pete Seeger]
[al:Pete Seeger: A Link In The Chain]
[00:07.86]When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip
[00:12.68]I wanted a place to call my own
[00:17.42]And so I made the race, and staked me out a place
[00:23.01]And settled down along the Cimarron
[00:26.60]
[00:27.21]It blowed away, it blowed away
[00:31.91]My Oklahoma home, it blowed away
[00:37.49]It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there
[00:42.23]But my Oklahoma home, it blowed away
[00:44.68]
[00:47.42]I planted wheat and oats, got some chickens and some shoats
[00:52.86]Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face
[00:57.10]Got a mule to pull the plow, got an old red muley cow
[01:02.84]And got a fancy mortgage on the place
[01:06.32]
[01:07.63]It blowed away, it blowed away
[01:12.97]All the crops I planted blowed away
[01:18.72]You can't grow any grain if there isn't any rain
[01:24.06]All except the mortgage blowed away
[01:26.96]
[01:29.44]It looked so green and fair, when I built my shanty there
[01:34.49]I figured I was all set for life
[01:40.18]I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest
[01:43.72]And went to town and picked me out a wife
[01:46.78]
[01:48.73]She blowed away, she blowed away
[01:53.02]My Oklahoma woman blowed away
[01:58.20]Just as I bent and kissed her, she was picked up by a twister
[02:04.09]My Oklahoma woman blowed away
[02:07.13]
[02:09.92]Then I was left alone a-listenin' to the moan
[02:14.57]Of the wind around the corners of my shack
[02:19.66]So, I took off down the road when the south wind blowed
[02:24.62]A-travelin' with the wind at my back
[02:27.01]
[02:28.91]I blowed away, I blowed away
[02:35.10]Chasin' a dust cloud up ahead
[02:40.00]Once it looked so green and fair, now it's up there in the air
[02:44.35]My Oklahoma farm is overhead
[02:48.29]
[02:49.59]Now I'm always close to home no matter where I roam
[02:54.94]For Oklahoma dust is everywhere
[03:00.18]Makes no difference where I'm walkin'
[03:02.38]I can hear my chickens squawkin'
[03:04.58]I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air
[03:07.43]
[03:08.98]It blowed away, it blowed away
[03:16.02]My Oklahoma home blowed away
[03:19.06]But my home is always near; it's in the atmosphere
[03:24.40]My Oklahoma home that blowed away
[03:27.69]
[03:29.49]I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home
[03:34.17]And I'll never get homesick 'til I die
[03:39.62]No matter where I'm found, my home is all around
[03:44.21]My Oklahoma home is in the sky
[03:47.90]
[03:49.15]It blowed away, it blowed away
[03:54.80]My farm down upon the Cimarron
[03:59.83]But all around the world, wherever dust is whirled
[04:04.83]Some is from my Oklahoma home
[04:08.02]
[04:09.27]It blowed away, it blowed away
[04:15.16]My Oklahoma home blowed away
[04:18.76]Oh, it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud rolling by
[04:25.95]My Oklahoma home is in the sky