Oklahoma Nights

from Static on Every Station by Tom Andes

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about

I was writing lines in iambic pentameter, and I came up with something to the effect of, "Those Oklahoma nights last mighty long / When your sweet thing's in someone else's arms." But I decided it was more interesting if the night lasted so long because the sweet thing was, instead of wasn't in your arms. I stole the progression in the chorus from a lovely old song called "The Waltz You Saved for Me," which I think I heard for the first time when Tuba Skinny did it at the Dragon's Den, though it's one of those songs that everyone's done. The arrangement evolved as I played it at solo acoustic gigs and then in rehearsals with Beau. Gradually, though there were never any additional verses, we cut away extraneous parts until it didn't repeat the chorus more than it needed to, and the first chorus is 15, instead of 16 bars.

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Those Oklahoma nights
They sure last mighty long
When your sweet thing
Is lying in your arms
You can hear the highway breathing
It's right outside your door
And the moonlight's throwing shadows
And shining 'cross the floor

Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long
When you can't sleep and you don't know what's wrong
Like a sweet, sad song
When you're lying awake at dawn
Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long

Those Oklahoma nights
They sure do go by slow
When you're creeping out of bed
And moonlight's falling 'cross the floor
But however far you go
And wherever you may roam
It's just because you know
She's waiting there at home

Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long
When you can't sleep and you don't know what's wrong
Like a sweet, sad song
When you're lying awake at dawn
Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long

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from Static on Every Station, released January 24, 2022
Tom Andes: lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
George "Beau" Bishop: drums, percussion, piano
Stoo Odom: bass, bowed bass

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Originally from New Hampshire, Tom has lived all over the country, on both coasts and (twice) in New Orleans. Currently, he lives in Albuquerque, NM.

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