Lyrics Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

My Oklahoma Home

When they opened up the strip

I was young and full of zip

I wanted some place to call my home

And so I made the race

and I staked me out a place

And settled down along the Cimarron

It blowed away, it blowed away

My Oklahoma home, it blown away

Well it looked so green and fair

when I built my shanty there

My Oklahoma home, it blown away

Well I planted wheats 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,

I 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've planted blown away

Well you can't grow any grain

if you ain't got any rain

Everything except my mortgage 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

Then I went to town to pick me out a wife

She blowed away, she blowed away

My Oklahoma woman blown away

Mr as I bent to kiss her,

she was picked up by a twister

My Oklahoma woman blown away

Well then I was left alone

just listening to the moan

Of the wind around the corners of my shack

So I took off down the road,

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

Well once it looked so green and fair

and now it's up in the air

My Oklahoma farm is over head

And 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 chickens squawkin'

I can hear my wife a-talking in the air

It blowed away, it blowed away

my Oklahoma home is blown away

But my home Sir, is always near,

it's up here in the atmosphere

My Oklahoma home is blown away

Well I'm a roam'n Oklahoman

but I'm always close to home

And I'll never get homesick until I die

'Cause no matter where I'm found,

my home's all around

My Oklahoma home is in the sky

It blowed away, it blowed away

And my farm down on Cimarron

But now all around the world

wherever the dust is swirled

There is some from my Oklahoma home

It blowed away, it blowed away

my Oklahoma home is blown away

it's up there in the sky

in that dust cloud over n' by

My Oklahoma home is blown away