Oklahoma Song Lyrics

Listen to the Oakie playin the piano
Pickin an a grinnin
An a singin his song

Don't it make you wanna dance now
Don't it make you wanna sing
Lah dah dee dee dah dee oh

Red River water runnin deep in my blood
If the Good Lord's willin
Then the creaks don't rise

And it makes me want to laugh now
And it makes me want to cry
Happy for my childhood Oaklahoma Song

With guitars strummin
And banjos pickin
And listen to the old time fiddler's moan

Summertime nights are on my mind
And I wonder how the old folks are
Back home.....sweet home

Well I gues I must have been seventeen
When I left my home, sweet home
I spent a lotta time aroun da people scene
An I spent some time alone

I've been a rich have and a poor have not
I gave what I could and I got back a lot
And I loved it.....yes loved it, mmmmm

I wouldn't take a minute from a single day
And I can't change the meaning
Of the words I said
And when I don't like it
Well I just try to leave it alone

Listen to the Oakie playin the piano
Pickin an a grinnin
An a singin his song

Don't it make you wanna dance now
Don't it make you wanna sing

(Thanks to Bruce Burton for these lyrics)