Oklahoma pride shows in song’s response
It’s a reflex in the Sooner State: When you hear the first notes of " Oklahoma !” you push off the bleachers at a football stadium or the back of the seat in front of you at a concert hall to stand up and clap for the state song.
Fifty years ago this month, former Gov. J. Howard Edmondson gave a speech imploring state residents to have more pride in Oklahoma, asking them to stand whenever the state s...
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