Well, I left Oklahoma
Driving in a Pontiac,
Just about to lose my mind
I was going to Arizona,
Maybe on to California
Where people all live so fine

My mother says I'm crazy,
My baby calls me lazy,
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'
I was born to just walk the line

 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

So there I was in Hollywood,
Thinking I was doing good,
Talking on the telephone line
They don't want me in the movies
And nobody sings my songs;
My mama says my baby's doing fine

So then I started winking,
Then I started thinking
That I really had a flash this time
That I had no bussiness leaving,
And nobody would be grieving;
You see I'm on Tulsa time