My Oklahoma Home-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:My Oklahoma Home] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions American Land Edition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Oklahoma Home - Bruce Springsteen [00:18.62]When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip [00:23.36]I wanted some place to call my own [00:27.84]And so I made the race and staked me out a place [00:32.51]And settled down along the Cimarron [00:36.48]It blowed away it blowed away [00:41.79]My Oklahoma home it blowed away [00:46.04]Well it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there [00:50.68]But my Oklahoma home it blowed away [00:55.27]I planted wheat and oats got some chickens and some shoats [01:00.25]Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face [01:04.08]Got a mule to pull the plow got an old red muley cow [01:08.83]And I also got a fancy mortgage on the place [01:12.72]It blowed away it blowed away [01:17.15]All the crops I planted blowed away [01:21.01] [01:22.20]Well you can't grow any grain if you ain't got any rain; [01:26.86]Everything except the mortgage blowed away [01:30.44] [01:49.54]It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there [01:54.13]I figured I was all set for life [01:58.30]I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest [02:02.92]And went to town and picked me out a wife [02:07.03]She blowed away she blowed away [02:11.61]My Oklahoma woman blowed away [02:16.20]Mister as I bent and kissed her she was picked up by a twister; [02:21.10]My Oklahoma woman blowed away [02:25.26]Well then I was left alone a-listenin' to the moan [02:29.84]Of the wind around the corners of my shack; [02:33.98]So I took off down the road when the south wind blowed [02:37.82] [02:38.67]A-travelin' with the wind upon my back [02:42.66]I blowed away I blowed away [02:46.98]Chasin that dust cloud up ahead [02:51.53]Once it looked so green and fair now it's up there in the air; [02:56.46]My Oklahoma farm is overhead [03:01.29] [03:18.13]Now I'm always close to home no matter where I roam [03:22.28] [03:23.08]For Oklahoma dust is everywhere [03:27.14]Makes no difference where I'm walkin' I can hear my chickens squawkin' [03:31.55]I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air [03:35.57]It blowed away it blowed away [03:39.74]My Oklahoma home blowed away [03:43.30] [03:44.43]But my home is always near; it's in the atmosphere [03:49.34]My Oklahoma home that blowed away [03:52.59] [04:01.82]Now I'm a roamin' Oklahoman but I'm always close to home [04:06.65]And I'll never get homesick 'til I die [04:10.79]Cause no matter where I'm found my home is all around; [04:15.35]My Oklahoma home is in the sky [04:19.15]It blowed away it blowed away [04:23.34]My farm down upon the Cimarron [04:28.14]Well now all around the world wherever dust is whirled [04:32.65]There's some from my Oklahoma home [04:36.40]It blowed away it blowed away [04:40.72]Yeah my Oklahoma home blowed away [04:45.12]Yes it's up there in the sky [04:47.67]In that dust cloud rolling by [04:49.85]My Oklahoma home is blowed away [04:55.61] [05:27.70]Well its blowed away it blowed away [05:32.25]My Oklahoma home blowed away [05:36.38]It's up there in the sky in that dust cloud rolling by [05:40.95]My Oklahoma home is in the sky