My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away (Live)-Pete Seeger

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[00:00.00]My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away (Live) - Pete Seeger
[00:07.97]When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip
[00:13.16]I wanted some place to call my own
[00:17.92]And so I made the race and staked me out a place
[00:22.95]And settled down along the Cimarron
[00:27.28]It blowed away it blowed away
[00:32.75]My Oklahoma home it blowed away
[00:37.78]It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there
[00:42.88]But my Oklahoma home it blowed away
[00:47.97]I planted wheat and oats
[00:50.24]Got some chickens and some shoats
[00:53.54]Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face
[00:58.20]Got a mule to pull the plow
[01:00.51]Got an old red muley cow
[01:03.16]And also got a fancy mortgage on the place
[01:08.02]It blowed away it blowed away
[01:13.67]All the crops I planted blowed away
[01:18.82]You can't grow any grain if you ain't got any rain;
[01:24.32]All except the mortgage blowed away
[01:29.23]It looked so green and fair
[01:31.41]When I built my shanty there
[01:34.49]I figured I was all set for life
[01:39.01]I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest
[01:44.24]And went to town and picked me out a wife
[01:48.67]She blowed away she blowed away
[01:54.45]My Oklahoma woman blowed away
[01:59.58]Mister as I bent and kissed her
[02:01.70]She was picked up by a twister;
[02:04.70]My Oklahoma woman blowed away
[02:09.70]Then I was left alone a-listenin' to the moan
[02:14.81]Of the wind around the corners of my shack;
[02:19.55]So I took off down the road
[02:22.01]When the south wind blowed
[02:24.98]A-travelin' with the wind at my back
[02:29.24]I blowed away I blowed away
[02:35.28]Chasin' a dust cloud up ahead
[02:39.90]Once it looked so green and fair
[02:42.44]Now it's up there in the air;
[02:44.82]My Oklahoma farm is overhead
[02:49.67]Now I'm always close to home no matter where I roam
[02:55.30]For Oklahoma dust is everywhere
[03:00.50]Makes no difference where I'm walkin
[03:02.65]I can hear my chickens squawkin'
[03:04.87]I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air
[03:09.59]It blowed away it blowed away
[03:15.15]My Oklahoma home blowed away
[03:20.07]But my home is always near;
[03:22.80]It's in the atmosphere
[03:25.42]My Oklahoma home that blowed away
[03:29.96]I'm a roamin' Oklahoman
[03:32.67]But I'm always close to home
[03:35.38]And I'll never get homesick 'til I die
[03:40.41]No matter where I'm found
[03:42.73]My home is all around;
[03:45.21]My Oklahoma home is in the sky
[03:49.69]It blowed away it blowed away
[03:55.28]My farm down upon the Cimarron
[04:00.24]But all around the world wherever dust is whirled
[04:05.62]Some is from my Oklahoma home
[04:10.02]It blowed away it blowed away
[04:15.73]My Oklahoma home blowed away
[04:21.02]Oh it's up there in the sky in
[04:23.80]That dust cloud rolling by
[04:26.64]My Oklahoma home is in the sky