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

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