D G D When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip, A I wanted some place to call my home D G D And so I made the race, and I staked me out a place, A D And I settled down along the Cimarron G D It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) A My Oklahoma home, it blowed away D G D It looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there, A D But my Oklahoma home, it blowed away D G D I planted wheat and oats, had some chickens and some shoats, D A Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face D G D Got a mule to pull the plow, got an old red muley cow D A D And I also got a fancy mortgage on the place G D It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) A All the crops that I have planted blowed away D G D You can't grow any grain if you ainā??t got any rain; A D Everything except my mortgage blowed away D G D It looked so green and fair, when I built my shanty there, A I figured I was all set for life D G D I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest A D And I went to town to pick me out a wife G D It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) A My Oklahoma woman blowed away D G D Mister as I bent and kissed her, she was picked up by a twister; A D My Oklahoma woman blowed away D G D Then I was left alone just a-listenin' to the moan D A ā??the wind around the corners of my shack; D G D So I took off down the road when the south wind blowed, A D A-travelin' with the wind upon my back G D It blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) A Chasin' that dust cloud up ahead D G D Once it looked so green and fair, now it's up there in the air; A D My Oklahoma farm is over head D G D Now I'm always close to home it donā??t matter where I roam, A For Oklahoma dust is everywhere D G D Makes no difference where I'm walkin', I can hear my chickens squawkin' A D I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air G D It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) A My Oklahoma home blowed away D G D But my home is always near; it's up in the atmosphere, A D My Oklahoma home is blown away D G D I'm a roamin' Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home A And I'll never get homesick until I die D G D Cause no matter where I'm found, my home is all around; A D My Oklahoma home is in the sky G D It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) A My farm down on the Cimarron D G D But all around the world, wherever dust is swirled, A D Thereā??s some from my Oklahoma home G D It blowed away,(BLOWED AWAY!), it blowed away, (BLOWED AWAY!) A My Oklahoma home is blown away D G D Yeah it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud over nā?? by, A D My Oklahoma home is in the sky A D