1.

Oklahoma's OK

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

From the rush of '89 up to the present
To 1907 when she became a state
There's so much pride and love that's gone into her
It's no wonder we all know that she's great

For the people that have fought and died to save her
From the things that only God can understand
Oklahoma has a hist'ry of humanity
That's shaped from every race and creed of man

She's got sunshine and she's got green hills
And things are goin' her way ay ay
She's got people there that's so much friendlier
Cause Oklahoma's OK

From the oil wells that dot the roaming hillsides
To the cities and the towns that make her grow
Oklahoma's got a feelin' deep inside her
And her people aren't afraid to let it show

You can talk about the cities in the eastern states
Or the waters of the blue Pacific shore
Well just give me the prairies and the sunsets
And I'll show you Oklahoma's got much more

She's got sunshine and she's got green hills...

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2.

Hanging Of Judge Parker

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

Judge Parker was a hangin' man the hist'ry books reveal
Eighty-eight men bet the rope in his court of no appeal
Eighty-eight men bet his rope eighty-eight men did swing
Folks came in to old Fort Smith when Parker did his thing

It's an eye for an eye the guilty must die
Judge Parker towed not a gun
Hang 'em up high do it right the first try
I don't want to see them again no I don't want to see them again

Judge Parker knew his Bible well and read it when he could
But hangin' was his answer to make a bad man good
Old Parker was a hangin' man a judge without parallel
For eighty-eight he was the gate that opened into hell

It's an eye for an eye the guilty must die...

No I don't want to see them again
No I don't want to see them again
No I don't want to see them again

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3.

Ballad Of Belle Starr

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

Belle Shirley lived near Wilburton wore a hat and shawl
Her name was well respected until she turned outlaw
Belle Shirley married Sam Starr who rode the Owl Hoot Trail
She joined up and soon became as rough as any male
She picked up men's bad habits and was handy with a gun
She robbed and she plundered and she thought it was great fun

Belle Starr Belle Starr with a bullet in your back
Are you lyin' there wishin' that you'd never joined that pack

Dyin' is not easy on some forgotten trail
She wanted to be famous and she did not fail
Some claim Belle was wicked while others call her brave
When she staged a holdup and hid out in Robbers Cave

Belle Starr became a legend yes that's a well known fact
But she ended up an outlaw with a bullet in her back

Belle Starr Belle Starr with a bullet in your back
Are you lyin' there wishin' that you'd never joined that pack

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4.

Cherokee Bill

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

The meanest man in all the west was known as Cherokee Bill
He liked to do what he did best which was to rob and kill
He had no conscience and a heart of stone
He valued no one's life not even his own

This kind of man had no respect for himself or for the law
When he robbed a general store in the town of Lenapah
So the people put a price on his head
When in cold blood he shot a witness dead

Cherokee Bill (Cherokee Bill) Cherokee Bill
Kept 'em diggin' at Boot Hill

And so the law went and tracked him down and caught Bill in a short while
And sent him over to Fort Smith where he would stand trial
Judge Parker showed no mercy and gave no hope
And sentenced Bill to die at the end of a rope

The sun was high when they marched him to the gallows on his last day
They asked this killer if he had any last words he would like to say
Hell no Bill replied knowin' death was in his reach
I came here to die not to make a speech

Cherokee Bill (Cherokee Bill) Cherokee Bill
Meanest outlaw in Boot Hill

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5.

Bill Doolin

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

Back before the turn of the century
In the rough and lawless days of the old southwest
There lived the king of the Oklahoma outlaws
Bill Doolin was his name and he was the best

If he wasn't herdin' cattle he was robbin' banks and trains
With a band of men that were known as the Dalton Gang
But Bill left the boys before that fatal day
When four of them met their maker at the Coffeyville raid

Bill Doolin who were you foolin'
Did you live your life the way you really planned
Bill Doolin who were you foolin'
When you knew that you were such a waste of man

Then Bill got together an outlaw gang of his own
They became the most wanted men the law had known
There was the gunfight at Ingalls that killed three lawmen
For the Doolin Gang it was the beginning of the end

After runnin' so long Bill decided to start a new life
He was gonna head west with his baby boy and his wife
But as he started to leave poor Bill had reached the end
He was killed by a Marshal's posse of his so called friends

Bill Doolin who were you foolin'...

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6.

Ballad Of Pretty Boy Floyd

Wayne Kemp - Mack Vickery

© Tree Publishing, BMI

I was raised in the Cookson Hills where the smoke gives away the stills
And the old folks tell their stories to the young
They talk about Pretty Boy whose real name was Charlie Floyd
And they say the first toy he played with was a gun

In the year of '29 in the hard depression times
Pretty Boy had a run-in with the law
As a man at twenty-one he was friends with everyone
Except the man who owned the bank at Sallisaw

It was early in the fall when a good man of the law
Laid dyin' where somebody shot him down (shot him down)
Well the evidence was thin when they brought the verdict in
They gave Pretty Boy fifteen long years in the pen

In an Oklahoma town Pretty Boy rolled and he hit the ground
Through the window of the train that was prison bound (prison bound)
Two long years was hit and miss and he was at the top of a list
Pretty boy made enemy number one

But everybody kept him hid for the good things that he did
Cause everybody was his friend in Sequoyah County

On an Ohio farm he took refuge in a barn
Cause the law meant to do some harm to Pretty Boy Floyd
'Cross an open field he ran why he did we don't understand
That's when dead shook the hand of Pretty Boy Floyd

But everybody kept him hid for the good things that he did
Cause everybody was his friend in Sequoyah County

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7.

Sequoyah

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

Sequoyah was a scholar and a mighty Cherokee
Who left a written language his gift to society
Sequoyah and George Gist were the same man you see
Sequoyah was a teacher of the Cherokee

His daddy was a white man from the hills of Tennessee
His mother was a lady and a full blood Cherokee
Sequoyah was a leader when he moved westwardly
And settled in the nation of the mighty Cherokee

His name is still remembered and honored even yet
As the first creator of the Cherokee alphabet
The eighty-five letters gave his people literacy
For Sequoyah was a giant in tribal history

In classroom and in textbook his name will ever be
Honored as a thinker and a noble Cherokee
Wherever great men gather the ones that do inspire
There you'll find Sequoyah sittin' around the council fire
Mhm mhm mhm

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8.

Bill Pickett Of The 101

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

When cowboys get together to brag about the best
One name that's always mentioned stands out among the rest
They talk about Bill Pickett from the famous 101
Who invented bull-doggin' was admired by everyone

It was a fact that Bill was black but no one seemed to care
And if it was work or play he always did his share
Bill toured with the Miller Brothers and their famous wild west show
He was a great bull-dogger and a showman we all know

Oh there never was an audience that didn't cheer and smile
When they saw Bill dog a steer with his special kinda style
He'd grab the steer by the horns and twist its neck around
Then bite the steers upper lip and pull him to the ground

He rodeoed at the Calgary Cheyenne and Laredo
London England Argentina Monterrey in Mexico
When the cheers had all ended and the shows were all done
Headed back to Oklahoma at the famous 101

This world champion bull-dogger till the day he died
Had broke a lot of bones but with courage and with pride
Now he's buried on the 101 ranch he loved the best
Bill Pickett is a part of the legend of the west

Oh there never was an audience that didn't cheer and smile...
He rodeoed at the Calgary Cheyenne and Laredo...

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9.

Tom Mix

Bobby Barnett - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

He came to Oklahoma to live a cowboy's life
And he roamed around from town to town till he found a job he liked
He was a bartender in Guthrie but the thing he loved the most
Was to risk his neck to please a crowd in a thrilling wild west show

Tom Mix with your big white hat
And a smile that the ladies understood
You rode across the silver screen into the hearts of millions
Like no other movie cowboy ever could

Soon Hollywood and silent movies called Tom Mix
He and Tony the wonder horse did daring stunts and tricks
He paved the way for cowboy stars like Hoppy Roy and Gene
With his flashy clothes and good guy ways on the movie screen

Tom Mix with your big white hat...

Yes you rode across the silver screen into the hearts of millions
Like no other movie cowboy ever could

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10.

Salute To Will Rogers

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

We know the world lost something the day Will Rogers died
He was Oklahoma's favorite son and they looked on him with pride
This gentleman from Claremore gave pleasure never pain
And America can always use a man like him again

His movies and his writings made everybody smile
For Will was a philosopher with a different kind of style
His humor made him famous but never did he change
From the plain and honest cowboy who one time rode the range

Where there's a Will there's a way
To make people see the humor and strength in true honesty
Where there's a Will there's a way

Will met a lot of people some of every type
But once remarked he never met a man he didn't like
When news came of the plane crash what stunned the people most
Was the loss of two great men like Will Rogers and Wiley Post

Where there's a Will there's a way...

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11.

Jim Thorpe

Bobby Barnett - James Hunter - Margaret Ann

© Crown Point Music, BMI

Let me tell you a story about a special kind of man
Whose name has been forgotten by many in our land
Jim Thorpe the great athlete Sac and Fox Indian
Was born in Oklahoma in sports he played to win

Football baseball each he'd been in track
Most rivals ever saw was Jim Thorpe's back
He could drop kick a football from fifty yards away
Each kick would split the uprights and make the scorin' play

Jim Thorpe could jump the highest big Jim could run all day
Right path could take the football and make the winnin' play
In the 1912 Olympics for America he went
He was the one and only man to win fifteen events

Fleet of foot and sure of eye
Jim Thorpe's immortal legend will never die

Jim Thorpe would enter all the meets while playin' at Carlisle
Then with determination win the shot put or the mile
This descendant of Blackhawk at the fifth olympic meet
Was named by the King of Sweden the world's greatest athlete

Then they took away his medals and we know it wasn't fair
Because of some infraction which he was unaware
So he died without the honors which showed that he was great
But people never showed a care until it's too late

Jim Thorpe could jump the highest...

Fleet of foot and sure of eye
Jim Thorpe's immortal legend will never die

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12.

Cowboy Hall Of Fame

Bobby Barnett - Margaret Ann - Lyle McPheeters

© Crown Point Music, BMI

In the state of Oklahoma on the 66 highway
There's a monument erected where inscribed are many names
In its halls are told the stories of how the west was tamed
Of its history and glory in the Cowboy Hall Of Fame

Standing on Persimmon Hill at crossroads USA
It's tent shaped roofs look like the cowboy camps of yesterday
And waving high up in the sky for everyone to see
Fly the flags of the seventeen great western states that made it a reality

This national memorial to the west of yesterday
Reminds us of the heritage that's in our hearts to stay
To the pioneers and cowboys who made themselves a name
They'll forever be remembered in the Cowboy Hall Of Fame

Inside its halls and on the walls are the works of famous men
Sculptures paintings and drawings some from Russell and Remington
There's the great map of America that tells the story best
Of the tears times and trails that helped join the east and the west

There's The National Rodeo Hall Of Fame with its roll of honorees
And all-around champion cowboys that have made its history
There's trophies saddles boots and spurs of those that many have hailed
And at the end of the hall the statue that's called The End Of The Trail

This national memorial to the west of yesterday...

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