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Back in Oklahoma Lyrics by Don Burnham

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[Verse 1]
I don't need a map to show me the way back to Oklahoma
I just need a fast train and one night and one day
To be back in Oklahoma
Be it dusty or muddy or windy or warm
Back in Oklahoma
When the noon sun gets too hot, we'll find us a cool spot
Back in Oklahoma
[Verse 2]
There's rattlers and tattlers and born again tractors
Back in Oklahoma
There's chicken, hawks and carrot walks and bohunks and podunks
Back in Oklahoma
Well, the truck stops here and I'm glad to be near
My home in Oklahoma
To the night I pray, that tomorrow's the day
I'll be waking up back in Oklahoma
[Verse 3]
I used to pray for the day
That I could move away far from Oklahoma
I wanted the bright lights
Got tired of jump-startin' truckers' wives
Back in Oklahoma
But those fancy lights dimmed and I started missing them
Back in Oklahoma
So I pointed my old Pontiac toward that little country shack
Back in Oklahoma
[Verse 4]
Wild catters drill dry wells, deeper than Satan's hell
Back in Oklahoma
Where the honky-tonk pickers
They got to brown bag their liquor
Back in Oklahoma
After Saturday night fish fry, that jug will send me sky high
Back in Oklahoma
But when Sunday morning comes around, you'll find my head bowed down
Back in Oklahoma
Well it's either a twister or the sun trying to blister
My back in Oklahoma
I'm digging onions and 'taters, frying fatback and tomatoes
Back in Oklahoma
They've got moon pies and knee-highs and women with beehives
Back in Oklahoma
So I don't need your champagne
Keep your watch and gold chain
I'm retiring back in Oklahoma
[Outro]
No I don't need your champagne
Keep your watch and gold chain
I'm retiring back in Oklahoma
Credits
Don Burnham

Don Burnham

About “Back in Oklahoma” by Don Burnham

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"Back in Oklahoma" appears on "California Skies".

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