Oklahoma Wind - Billy Joe Shaver

Oklahoma Wind - Billy Joe Shaver
Jesse lit us up and passed
The bottle one more time
We used to smoke
And drink a lot back then
Thunder shook the heavens
And the lightning danced the sky
Like I ain't seen
Since can't remember when
The Oklahoma kid laid dying
In a women's wing
Just another Indian biting dust
Clouds grew dark in promise
But they didn't rain a thing
The government ain't something
You can trust
Oh the Oklahoma wind
Slides across the burning sand
Over double crosses mother nature made
We picked a gig in Tulsa
At the cains ballroom that night
The Oklahoma kid was dead and gone
Rains still hadn't come
But the clouds still blacked the sky
That's when I took the time
To write this song about the wrong
Oh the Oklahoma wind
Slides across the burning sand
Over double crosses mother nature made
And nothing's ever come
As far as I'm concerned
From those dead tomorrows planted yesterday
The white man took a chance
And got his foot hung in the door
He sure as hell is gonna have his day
The redman speaks his peace
Gain his long lost dignity
Washington just turned the other way
Jesse spends his days
In loco hills new Mexico
Every night he drinks his fill of booze
When Williams ghost is running
He lays his money down
Winning just enough
To lose to lose
To lose to lose
Oh the Oklahoma wind
Slides across the burning sand
Over double crosses mother nature made
And nothing's ever come
As far as I'm concerned
From those dead tomorrows planted yesterday
Oh the Oklahoma wind
Slides across the burning sand
Over double crosses mother nature made
And nothing's ever come
As far as I'm concerned
From those dead tomorrows planted yesterday