Volume 9 , Issue 47

Oklahoma's Original State Song

Have you ever heard of Oklahoma's "original" state song, "Oklahoma, A Toast," written by Harriet Parker of Kingfisher, Oklahoma? As I said, that famous song like many other famous songs originated in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The original Oklahoma State song, "Oklahoma, A Toast", was written by Harriet Parker Camden (the daughter of Rev. J.H. Parker). Here are the Lyrics of her former state song are as follows:

OKLAHOMA, A TOAST
I give you a land of sun and flow'rs,
And summer a whole year long;
I give you a land where the golden hours
Roll by to the mocking bird's song;
Where the cotton blooms 'neath the southern sun,
Where the vintage hangs thick on the vine;
A land whose story has just begin,
This wonderful land of mine.
CHORUS
Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Fairest daughter of the West,
Oklahoma, Oklahoma, 'Tis the land I love the best.
We have often sung her praises, but we have not told the half,
So I give you "Ok-la-ho-ma," 'Tis a toast we all can quaff.
A land where the fields of golden grain,
Like waves on a sunlit sea,
Bend low to the breezes that sweep the plain
With a welcome to you and me;
Where the corn grows high 'neath the smiling sky,
Where the quail whistles low in the grass;
And the fruit trees greet with a burden sweet,
And perfume the winds that pass.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/fact-oklahoma.htm http://www.pldi.net/~harpers/kingfish.htm [10-2001] (Oklahoma, A Toast)
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