| "Oklahoma" is the title song from and the finale to the Broadway musical Oklahoma! The music and lyrics were written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The melody is reprised in the main title of the 1955 film version and in the overtures of both film and musical productions. After Curly and Laurey are married, Curly begins to sing the song and is soon joined by the entire cast as a chorus. The lyric describes the landscape in positive language and emphasizes the pleasant aspects of rural life, against the overtly stated formal backdrop of the territory's impending admission to the Union in the first decade of the 20th century. The state of Oklahoma officially adopted the song as its state song in 1953. State Representative George Nigh, who later served as the state's Governor was the principal author of the legislation designating the state song. |
Oklahoma! Lyrics Brand new state! Brand new state, gonna treat you great! Gonna give you barley, carrots and pertaters, Pasture fer the cattle, Spinach and Temayters! Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom, Plen'y of air and plen'y of room, Plen'y of room to swing a rope! Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope. Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet When the wind comes right behind the rain. Oklahoma, ev'ry night my honey lamb and I Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk makin' lazy circles in the sky. We know we belong to the land And the land we belong to is grand! And when we say--Yeeow! A-yip-i-o-ee ay! We're only sayin' You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma--O.K. |
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