My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away chords

Pete Seeger

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When they opened up the strip 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, and I staked me out a place, 
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And I settled down along the Cimarron 

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It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) 
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My Oklahoma home, it blowed away  
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It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there, 
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But my Oklahoma home, it blowed away 

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

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It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) 
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All the crops that I have planted blowed away 
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You can't grow any grain if you ainâ??t got any rain; 
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Everything except my mortgage blowed away 

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It looked so green and fair, when I built my shanty there, 
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I figured I was all set for life 
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I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest 
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And I went to town to pick me out a wife 

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It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) 
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My Oklahoma woman blowed away 
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Mister as I bent and kissed her, she was picked up by a twister; 
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My Oklahoma woman blowed away 

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Then I was left alone just a-listenin' to the moan 
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â??the wind around the corners of my shack; 
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So I took off down the road when the south wind blowed, 
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A-travelin' with the wind upon my back 

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It blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) 
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Chasin' that dust cloud up ahead 
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Once it looked so green and fair, now it's up there in the air; 
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My Oklahoma farm is over head 

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Now I'm always close to home it donâ??t matter where I roam, 
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For Oklahoma dust is everywhere 
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Makes no difference where I'm walkin', I can hear my chickens squawkin' 
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I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air 

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It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) 
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My Oklahoma home blowed away 
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But my home is always near; it's up in the atmosphere, 
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My Oklahoma home is blown away 

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I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home 
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And I'll never get homesick until I die 
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Cause no matter where I'm found, my home is all around; 
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My Oklahoma home is in the sky 

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It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) 
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My farm down on the Cimarron 
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But all around the world, wherever dust is swirled, 
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Thereâ??s some from my Oklahoma home 

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It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) 
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My Oklahoma home is blown away 
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Yeah it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud over nâ?? by, 
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My Oklahoma home is in the sky  
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