Oklahoma State Folk Song
About the Oklahoma State Folk Song
“Oklahoma Hills” by Woody Guthrie and Jack Guthrie.
Source: Oklahoma State Historical Society
Adopted April 5, 2001.
Find out more about Woody Guthrie from this article by Art of the Oklhoma Capital: Woodie Guthrie
Oklahoma Hills Lyrics
Hill in Oklahoma. Image courtesy of Matthew Rutledge.
Since I’ve wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma Hills
Where I was born
Many a page of my life has turned
Many lessons I have learned
And I feel like in those hills
Where I belong
Chorus:
Way down yonder in the Indian nation
Ridin’ my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma Hills where I was born
Way down yonder in the Indian nation
A cowboy’s life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma Hills where I was born
But as I sit here today
Many miles I am away
From the place I rode my pony
Through the draw
Where the oak and black-jack trees
Kiss the playful prairie breeze
And I feel back in those hills
Where I belong
Chorus
Now as I turn life a page
To the land of the great Osage
In those Oklahoma hills
Where I was born
Where the black oil rolls and flows
And the snow white cotton grows
And I feel like in those hills
Where I belong
Chorus
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Oklahoma Hills Video
Citation styles
- APA style
- Oklahoma State Folk Song. (2010, July 4). In State Reports by ClassBrain. Retrieved 17:30, May 18, 2012, from http://www.statereports.us/2010/06/oklahoma-state-folk-song/
- MLA style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, “Oklahoma State Folk Song.” State Reports by ClassBrain. 4 July 2010, 06:43 UTC. . 18 May 2012 <http://www.statereports.us/2010/06/oklahoma-state-folk-song/>.
- MHRA style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, 'Oklahoma State Folk Song', State Reports by ClassBrain, 4 July 2010, 06:43 UTC, <http://www.statereports.us/2010/06/oklahoma-state-folk-song/> [accessed 18 May 2012]
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, “Oklahoma State Folk Song.” State Reports by ClassBrain, http://www.statereports.us/2010/06/oklahoma-state-folk-song/ [accessed May 18, 2012].
- CBE/CSE style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, Oklahoma State Folk Song [Internet]. State Reports by ClassBrain; 2010 July 4, 06:43 UTC [cited 2012 May 18]. Available from: http://www.statereports.us/2010/06/oklahoma-state-folk-song/.
- Bluebook style
- Oklahoma State Folk Song, http://www.statereports.us/2010/06/oklahoma-state-folk-song/ (last visited May. 18, 2012).
- AMA style
- Rory Blanchard-Bell, Oklahoma State Folk Song. State Reports by ClassBrain. July 4, 2010, 06:43 UTC. Available at: http://www.statereports.us/2010/06/oklahoma-state-folk-song/. Accessed May 18, 2012.