Lyrics My Oklahoma Home - Bruce Springsteen

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