i ain't in checotah anymore

where 69 meets 40

there's a single stop light town

and back when i was really young

a part of that burned down

on any given friday night

we'd drive a hundred miles

between the sonic and the grocery store

laughing all the while

with as many friends as i could pack

in my daddy's ford

but i ain't in checotah anymore. my hotel in manhattan

holds more people than our town

and what i just paid for dinner

would be a down payment on a house

i'd rather be tipping cows in tulsa

than hailing cabs here in new york

but i ain't in checotah anymore. i'm in a world so wide

it makes me feel small sometimes

i miss the big blue skies

the oklahoma kind. in a world of long red carpets

the bright lights of hollywood

all the paparazzi flashing

could make a girl feel pretty good

you can get anything you want here

except a wal-mart store

but i ain't in checotah anymore. i'm in a world so wide

it makes me feel small sometimes

i miss the big blue skies

the oklahoma kind. where the wildcats beat the ironheads

old settler's day and the okrafest

after prom

down at the bowling lanes

catching crappie fish in eufaula lake

i ain't in checotah anymore. i'm in a world so wide

it makes me feel small sometimes

i miss the big blue skies

the oklahoma kind

but i ain't in checotah

no i ain't in checotah

oh

there's nothing like oklahoma. where 69 meets 40

there's a single stoplight town.