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    Well, I left Oklahoma, driving in a Pontiac,
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    just about to lose my mind.
    I was going to Arizona, maybe on to California,
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    where people all live so fine.
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    My mother says I'm crazy, my baby calls me lazy,
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    but I'm gonna show them all this time,
    'cause you know I ain't no fool and,  I don't need no more damn schoolin'.
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    I was born to just walk the line.

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Living on Tulsa time, living on Tulsa time,
gonna set my watch back to it,
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'cause you know that I've been through it, living on Tulsa time.

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    So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good,
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    talking on the telephone line.
    They don't want me in the movies and nobody sings my songs,
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    my mama says my baby's doing fine.

    So then I started winking, then I started thinking,
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    that I really had a flash this time.
    That I had no business leaving, and nobody would be grieving,
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    you see I'm on Tulsa time.

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Living on Tulsa time, living on Tulsa time,
gonna set my watch back to it,
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'cause you know that I've been through it, living on Tulsa time.

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Living on Tulsa time, living on Tulsa time,
gonna set my watch back to it,
                                                           G
'cause you know that I've been through it, living on Tulsa time.