YOU'RE THE REASON GOD MADE OKLAHOMA
From the film "Any Which Way You Can" (1980)
(Sandy Pickard / Larry Collins)

David Frizzell & Shelly West (Film Soundtrack) - 1980
Harold MacIntyre & Marji-Lea Cody - 1981
Hana Mlada & Pavel Brumer - 1990 (Czech title "Mam Te Rad, Kdyz Spís")

Also recorded by:
Sugarbush Revue; The Rouchelles; Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert.



DAVID:
There's a full moon over Tulsa
I hope that it's shining on you
The nights are gettin' colder in Cherokee County
There's a blue norther passin' through

I remember green eyes and a rancher's daughter
But remember is all that I do
Losin' you left a pretty good cowboy
With nothin' to hold on to

Sundown came and I drove to town
Drank a drink or two
You're the reason God made Oklahoma
You're the reason God made Oklahoma
And I'm sure missing you
I'm sure missing you

SHELLY:
Here the city lights outshine the moon
I was just now thinking of you
Sometimes when the wind blows you can see the mountains
And all the way to Malibu

Everyone's a star here in L.A. County
You oughta see the things that they do
All the cowboys down on the Sunset Strip
Wished that they could be like you

Santa Monica Freeway sometimes makes a country girl blue
You're the reason God made Oklahoma
You're the reason God made Oklahoma
And I'm sure missing you 

DAVID:
I work ten hours on a John Deere tractor
Just thinkin' of you all day
SHELLY:
I've got a calico cat and a two-room flat
On a street in West L.A.
BOTH:
You're the reason God made Oklahoma
You're the reason God made Oklahoma
I'm sure missing you
I'm sure missing you


(Contributed by boB Cartlidge & Bette Carl - February 2003)
(Updated by Mel Priddle - December 2017)