You Can't Write A Good Song About

A Folk Song Is What's Wrong And How To Fix It Or It Could Be Who's Hungry And Where Their Mouth Is Or Who's Out Of Work And Where The Job Is Or Who's Broke And Where The Money Is Or Who's Carrying A Gun And Where The Peace Is.

I Hate A Song That Makes You Think That You Are Not Any Good. I Hate A Song That Makes You Think That You Are Just Born To Lose. Bound To Lose. No Good To Nobody. No Good For Nothing. Because You Are Too Old Or Too Young Or Too Fat Or Too Slim Too Ugly Or Too This Or Too That.

Okemah Was One Of The Singingest, Square Dancingest, Drinkingest, Yellingest, Preachingest, Walkingest, Talkingest, Laughingest, Cryingest, Shootingest, Fist Fightingest, Bleedingest, Gamblingest, Gun, Club And Razor Carryingest Of Our Ranch Towns And Farm Towns, Because It Blossomed Out Into One Of Our First Oil Boom Towns.

I Ain't A Communist Necessarily, But I Been In The Red All My Life.

Any Fool Can Make Something Complicated. It Takes A Genius To Make It Simple.