Oklahoma

Border to border
Railroad tracks and cattle trails
And trains and trucks and buses
On their way to somewhere else
There used to be some oil
There used to be some coal
But most of us who settled here
Had nowhere else to go

It all started with the Spaniards
Going back four hundred years
They came to look for gold
For gold that wasn't here
Not here in

Oklahoma
Seems like nothing ever happens
But every now and then the wind
Comes sweeping down the plain

We call ourselves the Sooners
But still, we must admit
An entire Indian nation
Got here sooner than we did
Those Cherokees in Georgia
Never wanted to go west
So we drew up a treaty
And brought out the bayonets

Well, we promised them the land
For as long as water's run
Now they've walked the Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears goes on
Goes on in

Oklahoma
Seems like nothing ever happens
But every now and then the wind
Comes sweeping down the plain

We are children of the land rush
Of that last desperate run
When all you had to back your claim
Was gumption and a gun
I believe that frontier spirit
Was what made our country great
But something like a hurricane
Has come to shake my faith

Now we're trying to find the bodies
In the rubble and the dust
And we've dug up our enemy
But he is us
Right here in

Oklahoma
Seems like nothing ever happens
But every now and then the wind
Comes sweeping down the plain

I saw a singer on TV
In a big black cowboy hat
He said, "I love you, Oklahoma"
What did he mean by that?