[Verse 1]
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I left Oklahoma, Driving in a pontiac
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Just about to lose my mind.
N.C.
I was going to Arizona, Maybe on to california
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Where people all live so fine.
N.C.
My mother says I’m crazy, my baby calls me lazy
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But I’m gonna show them all this time
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’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.

[Chorus]
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Living on tulsa time, Living on tulsa time
N.C.
Gonna set my watch back to it
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’cause you know that I’ve been through it, living on tulsa timeChorus

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.
N.C.
So then I started winking, then I started thinking,
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That I really had a flash this time
N.C.
That I had no business leaving, and nobody would be grieving,
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You see I’m on tulsa time.

[Chorus]
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Living on tulsa time, Living on tulsa time
N.C.
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