JACOB'S LADDER
When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip
I wanted some place to call my home
And so I made the race and I staked me out a place
And settled down along the Cimarron
It
blowed away
It blowed away
My Oklahoma home, it blown away
Well it looked so green and fair
When I built my shanty there
My Oklahoma home, it blown away
Well
I planted wheats 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, I got an old red muley cow
And I also got a fancy mortgage on this place
Well
it blowed away, it 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
Well
it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there
I 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, she blowed away
My Oklahoma woman blown away
Mr as I bent to kiss her, she was picked up by a twister
My Oklahoma woman blown away
Well
then I was left alone just listening to the moan
Of the wind around the corners of my shack
So I took off down the road, yeah, when the south wind blowed
I traveled with the wind upon my back
I
blowed away, I blowed away
Chasin' that dust cloud up ahead
Well once it looked so green and fair and now it's up in the
air
My Oklahoma farm is over head
Well
now I'm always close to home, it don't matter where I roam
For Oklahoma dust is everywhere
Makes no difference where I'm walkin', I can hear my chickens
squawkin'
I can hear my wife a-talking in the air
It
blowed away, it blowed away
Yeah my Oklahoma home is blown away
But my home Sir, is always near, it's up here in the atmosphere
My Oklahoma home is blown away
Well
I'm a roam'n Oklahoman but I'm always close to home
And I'll never get homesick until I die
'Cause no matter where I'm found, my home's all around
My Oklahoma home is in the sky
It
blowed away, it blowed away
My farm down on Cimarron
Now all around the world where ever the dust is swirled
There is some from my Oklahoma home
Oh
and it's blowed away, it blowed away
Oh my Oklahoma home is blown away
Yeah it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud over n' by
My Oklahoma home is in the sky
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