My Oklahoma Home

  {title: My Oklahoma Home}
{subtitle: Bruce Springsteen}
{key: G}
{comment: Traditional - from We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - 2006}

{ci: Verse 1}
[G]When they opened up the strip I was [C]young and full of [G]zip
I wanted some place to call my [D]home
And [G]so I made the race and I [C]staked me out a [G]place
And I settled down [D]along the [G]Cimarron

{ci: Chorus}
It blowed [C]away (BLOWED AWAY!) it blowed [G]away (BLOWED AWAY!)
My Oklahoma home it blowed [D]away
It [G]looked so green and fair when I [C]built my shanty [G]there
But my Oklahoma [D]home it blowed [G]away

{ci: Verse 2}
I [G]planted wheat and oats had some [C]chickens and some [G]shoats
Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my [D]face
Got a [G]mule to pull the plow got an [C]old red muley [G]cow
And I also got a fancy [D]mortgage on the [G]place

{ci: Chorus}
It blowed [C]away (BLOWED AWAY!) it blowed [G]away (BLOWED AWAY!)
All the crops that I have planted blowed [D]away
You [G]can't grow any grain if you [C]ain't got any [G]rain
Everything except my [D]mortgage blowed [G]away

{ci: Verse 3}
It [G]looked so green and fair when I [C]built my shanty [G]there
I figured I was all set for [D]life
I put [G]on my Sunday best with my [C]fancy scalloped [G]vest
And I went to town to [D]pick me out a [G]wife

{ci: Chorus}
It blowed [C]away (BLOWED AWAY!) it blowed [G]away (BLOWED AWAY!)
My Oklahoma woman blowed [D]away
Mister [G]as I bent and kissed her she was [C]picked up by a [G]twister
My Oklahoma [D]woman blowed [G]away

{ci: Verse 4}
Then [G]I was left alone just a-[C]listenin' to the [G]moan
The [G]wind around the corners of my [D]shack
So I [G]took off down the road [C]when the south wind [G]blowed
A-travelin' with the [D]wind upon my [G]back

{ci: Chorus}
It blowed [C]away (BLOWED AWAY!) it blowed [G]away (BLOWED AWAY!)
Chasin' that dust cloud up [D]ahead
Once it [G]looked so green and fair now [C]it's up there in the [G]air
My Oklahoma [D]farm is over[G]head

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Now I'm [G]always close to home it don't [C]matter where I [G]roam
For Oklahoma dust is every[D]where
Makes no [G]difference where I'm walkin' I can [C]hear my chickens [G]squawkin'
I can hear my wife a-[D]talkin' in the [G]air

{ci: Chorus}
It blowed [C]away (BLOWED AWAY!) it blowed [G]away (BLOWED AWAY!)
My Oklahoma home blowed [D]away
But my [G]home is always near it's up [C]in the atmo[G]sphere
My Oklahoma [D]home is blown [G]away

{ci: Verse 6}
I'm a [G]roamin' Oklahoman but I'm [C]always close to [G]home
And I'll never get homesick until I [D]die
Cause no [G]matter where I'm found my [C]home is all a[G]round
My Oklahoma [D]home is in the [G]sky

{ci: Chorus}
It blowed [C]away (BLOWED AWAY!) it blowed [G]away (BLOWED AWAY!)
My farm down on the Cim[D]arron
But [G]all around the world wher[C]ever dust is [G]swirled
There's some from my [D]Oklahoma [G]home

{ci: Outro}
It blowed [C]away (BLOWED AWAY!) it blowed [G]away (BLOWED AWAY!)
My Oklahoma home is blown [D]away
Yeah it's [G]up there in the sky in that [C]dust cloud over n'[G]by
My Oklahoma [D]home is in the [G]sky
My Oklahoma [D]home is in the [G]sky