My Oklahoma Home

It blowed away, it blowed away
It blowed away, it blowed away
I can hear my chickens squawkin'

For Oklahoma dust is everywhere
But all around the world, wherever dust is whirled
It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there
All the crops that I sowed went a-foggin' down the road

And so I made the race, and staked me out a place
Got a mule to pull the plow, got an old red muley cow
Some is from my Oklahoma home
All the crops I planted blowed away
My Oklahoma home is in the sky
My Oklahoma farm, it blowed away
And settled down along the Cimarron

And got a fancy mortgage on the place

She blowed away, she blowed away
I planted wheat and oats, got some chickens and some shoats
I blowed away, I blowed away
The pigs and cattle went astray
But my Oklahoma home, it blowed away
Everything I owned blowed away
I hollered and I cussed when my land went up in dust

My Oklahoma woman blowed away
So, I took off down the road when the south wind blowed
My Oklahoma home blowed away
It blowed away my rooster and it blowed away my hens
My Oklahoma home that blowed away
Of the wind around the corners of my shack
I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air
A-travelin' with the wind at my back

And went to town and picked me out a wife

It blowed away, it blowed away
Then I was left alone a-listenin' to the moan
All except the mortgage blowed away
My Oklahoma home blowed away
I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest

It blowed away, it blowed away
And I'll never get homesick 'til I die
My Oklahoma woman blowed away
It blowed away, it blowed away
Makes no difference where I'm walkin'
No matter where I'm found, my home is all around
Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face
I figured I was all set for life
But my home is always near; it's in the atmosphere
It blowed away, it blowed away
It looked so green and fair, when I built my shanty there
Just as I bent and kissed her, she was picked up by a twister
My Oklahoma farm is overhead
When my Oklahoma farm, it blowed away
I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home
Chasin' a dust cloud up ahead
Once it looked so green and fair, now it's up there in the air
My farm down upon the Cimarron

Now I'm always close to home no matter where I roam
My Oklahoma home, it blowed away
Oh, it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud rolling by
You can't grow any grain if there isn't any rain