A popular song from 1912.
Words by Harry Williams.
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Not long ago, a wild west show
Blew into town one day
The Injuns and the Cowboys
All were feeling mighty gay
But when they made their big parade
Bill Brown refused to go
He stayed at home all day alone
And said, “I’ll give no show”
The Boss came back to find him
And in a rage he cried
“Look here, Bill Brown
You’ve thrown me down”
Then lonesome Bill replied
Chorus
I’m goin’ back to Oklahoma
Where the alfalfa grows
I’m goin’ back to Oklahoma
Where they wear my kind of clothes
With a gun on my hip
With a crack of a whip
And a pony that knows
I’m goin’ back to Oklahoma
To my Oklahoma Rose
- Bill hopped upon a limited express that very day
He’d not gone far when in the car
He heard an old man say
I’ve seen the sights and city lights
I’ve been to gay Paree
Compared with Oklahoma, Boy
They don’t run one, two, three
I’ll see my daughter Rosie
The best girl in Pawnee
Bill yelled, Oh dad! now don’t get mad
She’s goin’ to marry me
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: