My Oklahoma Home (Live in Dublin)

[Audience in bold]

When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip

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, blowed away, it blowed away, blowed away

Yeah, my Oklahoma home is blown away

Well, it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there

Now my Oklahoma home is blown away

Come on!

Well, I planted wheats and oats, had some chickens and some shoats

Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face

I got a mule to pull the plow, got an old red muley cow

And I also got a fancy mortgage on this place

Well, it blowed away, blowed away, it blowed away, blowed away

All the crops that I've planted blown away

Well, you can’t grow any grain if you ain't got any rain

Everything except my mortgage blown away

Soozie Tyrell!

Well, it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there

Figured I was all set for life

I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest

Then I went to town to pick me out a wife

She blowed away, blowed away, she blowed away, blowed away

My Oklahoma woman blown away

Mister, as I bent to kiss her, she was swooped up by a twister

My Oklahoma woman's blown away

Come on, Charlie!

Then I was left alone, and just listening 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, blowed away, I blowed away, blowed away

Yeah, chasin’ that dust cloud up ahead

Once it looked so green and fair, now it's up in the air

My Oklahoma farm is over head

Slam, Charles!

I'm always close to home, it don't matter where I roam

Oklahoma dust is everywhere

Makes no difference where I'm walkin', I can hear my chickens squawkin'

I can hear my wife talking in the air

It blowed away, blowed away, it blowed away, blowed away

Yeah, my Oklahoma home is blown away

My home, Sir, 's always near, it’s up in the atmosphere

My Oklahoma home is blown away

Kick, banjo!

I’m a roam'n Oklahoman, and I’m always close to home

Never get homesick until I die

No matter where I'm found, yeah, my home is all around

My Oklahoma home's in the sky

It blowed away, blowed away, it blowed away, 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, blown away, it's blown away, blown away

My Oklahoma home is blown away

It's up there in the sky in that dust cloud by and by

My Oklahoma home's blown away

It's blown away, blown away, it's blown away, blown away

Yeah, my Oklahoma home is blown away

It's up there in the sky in that dust cloud by and by

My Oklahoma home is in the sky

Marty Rifkin on the steel guitar!