"Oklahoma Hills" is a song written by Woody Guthrie.
Jack Guthrie, Woody's cousin, later changed the lyrics and music and in 1945 recorded a Western swing version which he took to number one on the Juke Box Folk Records charts. The B-side of the song, entitled, "I'm Brandin' My Darlin' With My Heart" peaked at number five on the same chart.
Country singer Hank Thompson, joined by His Brazos Valley Boys, also recorded a well-known version of "Oklahoma Hills". Thompson's western swing rendition reached No. 10 on the Billboard magazine Hot C&W Singles chart in 1961.
Woody's son, Arlo Guthrie, recorded the song for his album Running Down the Road, released in 1969 by Warner Bros. Records.
In 2001 the Oklahoma State Legislature declared Woody's version the official state folk song.
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Famous quotes containing the words oklahoma and/or hills:
“I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma to France and back again ... without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, “We must of went different ways. I don’t rightly recollect no water, ever.””
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“By night and by day I shall seek your truth,
O Lord, light my path, show the way.
What is beyond the hills that I climb,
Lord, clear the mist away.”
—Faye T. Bresler (b. 1959)