Oklahoma Lullaby - Heather Maloney

I’m a man of wisdom

You’re a hardy woman

Where will we flow from?

What will we leave our son?

In Oklahoma, we’ll make our home and

There’s not a need we couldn’t meet

With the dirt under our feet

I can remember my father’s temper

He worked the factory, never drove his destiny

I know he’d be proud of my hand on the plough

I’d answer to no one but the rainfall and the sun

In Oklahoma, we’ll make our home in the

The fields of golden wheat

And the dirt under our feet

And I don’t know, don’t know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

And I don’t know, don’t know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

But then it rose above us

The blackest of dust

In the middle of the day

I was harvesting the hay

From noon to midnight

In ten minutes time

We ran to shelter

I sang our boy a lullaby

Oklahoma lullaby

And I don’t know, don’t know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

And I don’t know, don’t know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

And I don’t know, don’t know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

And I don’t know, don’t know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

It’s in the cupboard

It’s on our tongues

Under our pillows

It’s in our lungs

This bowl of dust

It just ain’t no home

I only wanted a place of my own

A place of my own

But I’m a man of pride and I could not provide

Now I’m waiting in this line and

I can’t look him in the eye

As he’s handing me relief

Someone’s singin' down on me

My father from up high above the soil in the sky

Oklahoma lullaby

And I don’t know, know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

And I don’t know, know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

And I don’t know, know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

And I don’t know, know how we came to deserve it

I don’t know, don’t know what we did

I don’t know, don’t know what we did