Tulsa by Morning

Verse 1

Hard-strummed acoustic and voice

You called from your sister's in TulsaSaid you're flying out at nineSaid don't come, it's done, it's doneI heard the maybe in your voiceSo I'm driving

Pre-Chorus

Two hundred miles of I-44Every one of them says turn around

Chorus

I'll be in Tulsa by morningIf the old truck holdsDon't you leave before I'm thereI'll be in Tulsa by morning

Verse 2

I've got a gas can and a thermosAnd the speech I've practiced twiceBoth times I forgot the endingMaybe you can write it

Pre-Chorus

Two hundred miles of I-44Every one of them says turn around

Chorus

Harmonica and fiddle enter

I'll be in Tulsa by morningIf the old truck holdsDon't you leave before I'm thereI'll be in Tulsa by morning

Bridge

Voice straining, nearly shouting

If you're gone when I get thereI'll drive home and tell no one

Final Chorus

Full band, trumpet, cracking and loud

I'll be in Tulsa by morningIf the old truck holdsDon't you leave before I'm thereI'll be in Tulsa by morningI'll be in Tulsa by morningIf the old truck holdsDon't you leave before I'm hereI'll be in Tulsa by morning