My Oklahoma Home

My Oklahoma Home When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip I wanted a place to call my own And so I made the race, and staked me out a place And settled down along the Cimarron It blew away, it blew away My Oklahoma home, it blew away It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there But my Oklahoma home, it blew away I planted wheat 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, got an old red muley cow And got a fancy mortgage on the place It blew away my rooster and it blew away my hens The pigs and cattle went astray All the crops that I sowed went fogging down the road My Oklahoma farm, it blew away It blowed away, it blowed away Everything I owned blowed away I hollered and I cussed when my land went up in dust When my Oklahoma farm, it blowed away 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 And went to town and picked me out a wife Then I was left alone listening to the moan Of the wind around the corners of my shack So, I took off down the road when the south wind blew Traveling with the wind at my back Now I'm always close to home no matter where I roam For Oklahoma dust is everywhere Makes no difference where I'm walking I can hear my chickens squawking I can hear my wife talking in the air I'm a roaming Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home And I'll never get homesick until I die No matter where I'm found, my home is all around My Oklahoma home is in the sky [Chorus][x2]