Interpret:

Bruce Springsteen

Album:

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

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,
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


And 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
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
And my farm down on Cimarron
But now all around the world
wherever the dust is swirled
There is some from my Oklahoma home


It blowed away, it blowed away
my Oklahoma home is blown away
it's up there in the sky
in that dust cloud over n' by
My Oklahoma home is blown away