My Oklahoma Home - Live at the Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland - November 2006

When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip, I wanted some place to call my home And so I made the race, and I staked me out a place, And I settled down along the Cimarron It blowed away, it blowed away, My Oklahoma home has blown away Well it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there, But my Oklahoma home, has blown 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 I also got a fancy mortgage on the place It blowed away, it blowed away, All the crops that I had planted blowed away Well you can′t grow any grain if you ain't got any rain; Everything except my mortgage 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 I went to town to pick me out a wife She blowed away, she blowed away My Oklahoma woman blowed away Mister as I bent to kiss her, she was swooped up by a twister My Oklahoma woman blowed away Well I was left alone just a-listenin′ to the moan Of the wind around the corners of my shack I took off down the road where the south wind blowed, And I traveled with the wind upon my back I blowed away, I blowed away Chasin' that dust cloud up ahead Once it looked so green and fair, now it's up there in the air; My Oklahoma farm is overhead I′m always close to home, it don′t matter where I roam, For Oklahoma dust is everywhere Makes no difference where I'm walkin′, I can hear my chickens squawkin' I can hear my wife talkin′ in the air It blowed away, it blowed away, My Oklahoma home is blown away My homestead's always near it′s up in the atmosphere, My Oklahoma home is blown away Now I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I′m always close to home And I′ll never get homesick 'til I die Cause no matter where I′m found, my home is all around My Oklahoma home is in the sky It blowed away, it blowed away, My farm down on the Cimarron Now all around the world, wherever dust is swirled There's some from my Oklahoma home It′s blown away, it's blown away, My Oklahoma home is blown away. Yes it′s up there in the sky in that dust cloud by and by My Oklahoma home is blown away Blown away, it's blown away, My Oklahoma home has blown away It's up there in the sky in that dust cloud by and by My Oklahoma home is in the sky.