Bruce Springsteen - My Oklahoma Home

capo on 2nd

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when they opened up the strip i was young and full of zip ,
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i wanted some place to call my home
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and so i made the race , and i staked me out a place ,
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and i settled down along the cimarron

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it blowed away , ( blowed away! ) , it blowed away , ( blowed away! )
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my oklahoma home , it blowed away
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it looked so green and fair when i built my shanty there ,
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but my oklahoma home , it blowed away

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i planted wheat and oats , had some chickens and some shoats ,
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aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face
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got a mule to pull the plow , got an old red muley cow
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and i also got a fancy mortgage on the place

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it blowed away , ( blowed away! ) , it blowed away , ( blowed away! )
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all the crops that i have planted blowed away
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you can’t grow any grain if you aint got any rain;
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everything except my mortgage blowed away

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it looked so green and fair , 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 fancy scalloped vest
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and i went to town to pick me out a wife

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it blowed away , ( blowed away! ) , it blowed away , ( blowed away! )
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my oklahoma woman blowed away
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mister as i bent and kissed her , she was picked up by a twister;
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my oklahoma woman blowed away

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then i was left alone just A – listenin’ to the moan
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the wind around the corners of my shack;
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so i took off down the road when the south wind blowed ,
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A – travelin’ with the wind upon my back

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it blowed away , ( blowed away! ) , it blowed away , ( blowed away! )
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chasin’ that dust cloud up ahead
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once it looked so green and fair , now it’s up there in the air;
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my oklahoma farm is over head

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now i’m always close to home it dont matter where i roam ,
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for oklahoma dust is everywhere
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makes no difference where i’m walkin’ , i can hear my chickens squawkin’
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i can hear my wife A – talkin’ in the air

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it blowed away , ( blowed away! ) , it blowed away , ( blowed away! )
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my oklahoma home blowed away
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but my home is always near; it’s up in the atmosphere ,
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my oklahoma home is blown away

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i’m a roamin’ oklahoman , but i’m always close to home
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and i’ll never get homesick until i die
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cause no matter where i’m found , my home is all around;
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my oklahoma home is in the sky

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it blowed away , ( blowed away! ) , it blowed away , ( blowed away! )
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my farm down on the cimarron
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but all around the world , wherever dust is swirled ,
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theres some from my oklahoma home

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it blowed away , ( blowed away! ) , it blowed away , ( blowed away! )
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my oklahoma home is blown away
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yeah it’s up there in the sky in that dust cloud over n by ,
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my oklahoma home is in the sky
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my oklahoma home is in the sky