A popular song from 1903
Words and music by Harriet Parker Camden
The sheet music:
Lyrics
1. I give you a land of Sun and flowers
And summer, the whole year long
I give you a land, where 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 stores just begun
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 “Oklahoma”
’Tis a toast we all can quaff
2. A land where the fields of golden grain
Like waves on a sunlit sea
As it bends to the breezes that sweep the plain
Waves a welcome to you and
Where the corn grows high ‘neath the smiling sky
Where the quail whistles low in the grass
And fruit trees greet with a burden sweet
And perfume the winds that pass