My Oklahoma Home

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 Well, it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there My Oklahoma home, it blowed away Well,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 I also got a fancy mortgage on this place It blowed away, it blowed away All the crops I have planted blowed away Well,you can't grow any grain if you ain't got any rain Everything except my mortgage blowed away Well,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 Well,then I was left alone just 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 upon my back I blowed away, I blowed away Chasin that 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 Now I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home And I'll never get homesick 'till I die 'Cause 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 Well now,all around the world, wherever dust is whirled There's some from my Oklahoma home It blowed away, it blowed away Yeah, my Oklahoma home blowed away Yes it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud rolling by, my Oklahoma home is blowed away Well, it's blowed away, it blowed away My Oklahoma home is blowed away It's up there in the sky in that dust cloud rolling by, my Oklahoma home is in the sky