My Oklahoma Home

My Oklahoma Home - Bruce Springsteen / Bill Cunningham

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When they opened up the strip

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I was young and full of zip

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I wanted some place to call my home

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And so I made the race

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And I staked me out a place

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And settled down along the Cimmaron

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It blowed away

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It blowed away,

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My Oklahoma home, it blow'd away

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Well it looked so green and fair

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When I built my shanty there

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Now my Oklahoma home is blown away

Well I planted wheat and oats
Got some chickens and some shoats
Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face
Gota mule to pull the plow 
Got an old red muley cow
And I also got a fancy mortgage on this place.

Well it blowed away, it blowed away.
All the crops that I planted blowed away
Well, you can't grow any grain
If you ain't got any rain
Everything except my mortgage got blown 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 I went downtown to pick me out a wife

She blowed away
She blowed away
My Oklahoma woman blowed away
Mister, as I bent down to kiss 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
Yeah when the south wind blowed
I traveled 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.

Well, now I'm always close to home
It don't matter where I roam
For Oklahoma dust is everywhere
Makes no difference where I'm walkin'
I can hear my chicken's squawkin'
I can hear my wife a talkin' in the air

It blowed away
It blowed away
Yeah, my Oklahoma home it blowed away 
But my home, sir, is always near
It's up in the atmosphere
My Oklahoma home is blown away

Well I'm a roamin' Oklahoman
But I'm always close to home
I'll never get homesick until 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 on the Cimmarron
Now all over the world
Whereever dust is swirled
There is some from my Oklahoma home

Oh and it's blown away
It's blown away
Oh my Oklahoma home is blown away
Yeah, its up there in the sky
In that dust cloud by and by
My Oklahoma home is in the sky.

Yeah!