My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away) [Previously Unreleased Track] chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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When they opened up the
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strip I was young and full of zip,
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I wanted some place to call my own.
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And so I made the race,
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and staked me out a place,
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And settled down along the Cimarron.
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Verse 2
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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
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built my shanty there,
But my Oklahoma home, it blowed away.

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Verse 3

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.

Verse 4
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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 you
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ain't got any rain;
All except the mortgage
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blowed away.

Verse 5
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It looked so green and fair,
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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
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fancy scalloped vest
And went to town and
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picked me out a wife.

Verse 6
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She blowed away, she blowed away
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My Oklahoma woman blowed away.
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Mister as I bent and kissed her, she was
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picked up by a twister;
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My Oklahoma woman blowed away.

Verse 7
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Then I was left alone a-listenin'
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to to the moan
Of the wind around the corners
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of my shack;
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So I took off down the road when the south wind blowed,
A-travelin' with with the wind at my back.
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I blowed away,

Verse 8
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I blowed away
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Chasin' a dust cloud up ahead.
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Once it looked so green and fair,
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now it's up there in the air;
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My Oklahoma farm is overhead.

Verse 9
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Now I'm always close to home
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no matter where I roam,
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'
I can hear my wife a-talkin' in
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in the air.

Verse 10
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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
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in the atmosphere,
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My Oklahoma home that blowed away.

Verse 11
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I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I'm
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al ways 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,
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my home is all around;
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My Oklahoma home is in the sky.

Verse 12
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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,
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wherever dust is whirled,
Some is from my Oklahoma home.
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It blowed away,

Verse 13
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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,
my Oklahoma home is blowed away.