I don't need a map To show me the way Back to Oklahoma I just need a fast freight And one night and one day Back in Oklahoma Be it dusty or muddy Or windy or warm Back in Oklahoma When the new 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 hobs and cakewalks There's bough huts and foul ducks Back in Oklahoma Where the truck stops here And I'm glad to be near My home in Oklahoma So every night I'll pray That tomorrow's the day I'll be wakin' up back in Oklahoma I used to pray for the day I could move away Far from Oklahoma I wanted the bright lights Got tired of jump-startin' truckers' wives Back in Oklahoma But the fancy lights dimmed And I started missin' them Back in Oklahoma So I pointed my old Pontiac Toward that little country shack Back in Oklahoma While catters drill dry wells Deeper than Satan's hell Back in Oklahoma Where the honky-tonk bickers Got to brown-bag their liquor Back in Oklahoma After Saturday night fish fry That jug will send me sky high Back in Oklahoma But when Sunday mornin' comes around You'll find my head bowed down Back in Oklahoma It's either a twister Or the sun tryin' to blister My back in Oklahoma I'm diggin' onions and 'taters Frying fatback and tomatoes Back in Oklahoma They got moon pies and knee-highs And women with beehives Back in Oklahoma So I don't need your champagne Keep your watch and gold chain I'm a-retirin' back in Oklahoma No, I don't need your champagne Keep your watch and gold chain I'm a-retirin' back in Oklahoma