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[ti:My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away - Previously Unreleased] |
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[ar:Pete Seeger] |
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[al:Pete Seeger: A Link In The Chain] |
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When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip |
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I wanted a place to call my own |
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And so I made the race, and staked me out a place |
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And settled down along the Cimarron |
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It blowed away, it 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, got 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 got a fancy mortgage on the place |
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It blowed away, it blowed away |
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All the crops I planted blowed away |
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You can't grow any grain if there isn't any rain |
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All except the 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 went to town and picked me out a wife |
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She blowed away, she blowed away |
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My Oklahoma woman blowed away |
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Just 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 a-listenin' to the moan |
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Of 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 at my back |
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I blowed away, I blowed away |
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Chasin' a 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 overhead |
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Now I'm always close to home no matter where I roam |
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For Oklahoma dust is everywhere |
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Makes no difference where I'm walkin' |
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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, it blowed away |
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My Oklahoma home blowed away |
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But my home is always near; it's in the atmosphere |
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My Oklahoma home that blowed 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 'til I die |
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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, it blowed away |
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My farm down upon the Cimarron |
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But all around the world, wherever dust is whirled |
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Some is from my Oklahoma home |
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It blowed away, it blowed away |
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My Oklahoma home blowed away |
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Oh, it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud rolling by |
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My Oklahoma home is in the sky |