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Oklahoma
composed and written by
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Brand new state!
Brand new state, gonna treat you great!
Gonna give you barley, carrots and
pertaters,
Pasture fer the cattle,
Spinach and Termayters!
Flowers on the prairie 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."
Notes:
Oklahoma! was originally recorded on May 11, 1955 and release on August 1, 1955. It debuted on the Billboard charts on September 17, 1955, reached #1, held that position for 4 weeks, and remained on the charts for 305 weeks. Oklahoma! has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Oklahoma! won Academy Awards for the Best Sound Recording and Best Scoring of a Musical Film.
The film version of Oklahoma! opened in New York at the Rivoli Theatre on October 11, 1955 , in the widescreen Todd-AO format, followed by a limited national release. On November 1, 1956, it was released in the alternate Cinemascope version by 20th Century-Fox.
The film was based on the original Broadway production (which was based on Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs) that opened March 31, 1943 at the St. James Theater and closed May 29th, 1948, running a record breaking five years and nine weeks after opening.
Oklahoma! was adopted as Oklahoma's Official State Song in 1953.
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