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Artist: Don Williams
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Where The Arkansas River Leaves Oklahoma
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Where The Arkansas River Leaves Oklahoma
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Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma
It runs free and rambles muddy and wide
Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma
It's gone forever and never looks back
I met her in Stillwell she just turned twenty
A spirited beauty like I'd never known
And me a dirt farmer who lived by the river
But she said she loved me and the free life I know
We married in April and lived by the river
We worked at land from spring till the fall
But I guess when the winter out at our window
She couldn't help hearing that wild river call
Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma...
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She tried to conquer that wild rage within her
But something too strong ran deep in her soul
But I know she loved me she cried like a baby
That cold winter evening she answered the call
Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma...
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