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