My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away (Previously Unreleased)-Pete Seeger

[00:07.86]When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip [00:12.68]I wanted a place to call my own [00:17.42]And so I made the race, and staked me out a place [00:23.01]And settled down along the Cimarron [00:26.60] [00:27.21]It blowed away, it blowed away [00:31.91]My Oklahoma home, it blowed away [00:37.49]It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there [00:42.23]But my Oklahoma home, it blowed away [00:44.68] [00:47.42]I planted wheat and oats, got some chickens and some shoats [00:52.86]Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face [00:57.10]Got a mule to pull the plow, got an old red muley cow [01:02.84]And got a fancy mortgage on the place [01:06.32] [01:07.63]It blowed away, it blowed away [01:12.97]All the crops I planted blowed away [01:18.72]You can't grow any grain if there isn't any rain [01:24.06]All except the mortgage blowed away [01:26.96] [01:29.44]It looked so green and fair, when I built my shanty there [01:34.49]I figured I was all set for life [01:40.18]I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest [01:43.72]And went to town and picked me out a wife [01:46.78] [01:48.73]She blowed away, she blowed away [01:53.02]My Oklahoma woman blowed away [01:58.20]Just as I bent and kissed her, she was picked up by a twister [02:04.09]My Oklahoma woman blowed away [02:07.13] [02:09.92]Then I was left alone a-listenin' to the moan [02:14.57]Of the wind around the corners of my shack [02:19.66]So, I took off down the road when the south wind blowed [02:24.62]A-travelin' with the wind at my back [02:27.01] [02:28.91]I blowed away, I blowed away [02:35.10]Chasin' a dust cloud up ahead [02:40.00]Once it looked so green and fair, now it's up there in the air [02:44.35]My Oklahoma farm is overhead [02:48.29] [02:49.59]Now I'm always close to home no matter where I roam [02:54.94]For Oklahoma dust is everywhere [03:00.18]Makes no difference where I'm walkin' [03:02.38]I can hear my chickens squawkin' [03:04.58]I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air [03:07.43] [03:08.98]It blowed away, it blowed away [03:16.02]My Oklahoma home blowed away [03:19.06]But my home is always near; it's in the atmosphere [03:24.40]My Oklahoma home that blowed away [03:27.69] [03:29.49]I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home [03:34.17]And I'll never get homesick 'til I die [03:39.62]No matter where I'm found, my home is all around [03:44.21]My Oklahoma home is in the sky [03:47.90] [03:49.15]It blowed away, it blowed away [03:54.80]My farm down upon the Cimarron [03:59.83]But all around the world, wherever dust is whirled [04:04.83]Some is from my Oklahoma home [04:08.02] [04:09.27]It blowed away, it blowed away [04:15.16]My Oklahoma home blowed away [04:18.76]Oh, it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud rolling by [04:25.95]My Oklahoma home is in the sky