1. Well, I left Oklahoma, driving in a Pontiac, just about to lose my mind.

2. So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good, talking on the telephone line.

1. I was going to Arizona, maybe on to California, where people all live so fine.

2. They don't want me in the movies and nobody sings my songs, my mama says my baby's doing fine.

1. My mother says I'm crazy, my baby calls me lazy, but I'm gonna show them all this time,

2. So then I started winking, then I started thinking, that I really had a flash this time.

1. 'cause you know I ain't no fool and, I don't need no more damn schoolin'. I was born to just walk the line.

2. That I had no business leaving, and nobody would be grieving, you see I'm on Tulsa time.

Living on Tulsa time, living on Tulsa time, gonna set my watch back to it,

'cause you know that I've been through it, living on Tulsa time.