In The Shadow Of The Valley
Jerry Burnham
3:07I don't need a man to show me the way Back to Oklahoma I just need a fast freight 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 There's rattlers and tattlers and born-again tractors Back in Oklahoma There's chicken hawks and cakewalks and bohunks and podunks Back in Oklahoma Well the truckstops here, I'm glad to be near My home in Oklahoma So tonight I'll pray, tomorrow's the day I'll be waking up back in Oklahoma I'd used to pray for the day I could move away Far from Oklahoma I wanted the bright lights, got tired of jump-starting truckers wives Back in Oklahoma But the path to lights dimmed, I started missing them Back in Oklahoma So I pointed my Pontiac toward that little country shack Back in Oklahoma Wildcatters drill dry wells deeper than Satan's hell Back in Oklahoma Where honky-tonk pickers got to brown-bag their liquors Back in Oklahoma At Saturday night fish fry that jug will send me sky high Back in Oklahoma When Sunday morning comes around You'll find my head bowed down Back in Oklahoma The twister can lift me the sun can blister My back in Oklahoma I'm diggin' onions and 'taters fried and fatback and 'maters Back in Oklahoma They got moon pies and Nehis and women with beehives Back in Oklahoma Though I don't need the champagne Keep your watch and gold chain I'm retiring back in Oklahoma