Take Me Back to Tulsa is a great Bob Wills tune I always enjoy playing a little bit of Oklahoma Swing music. đ

Take Me Back to Tulsa according to Wikipedia
“Take Me Back To Tulsa” is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan added words to one of Bob Wills old fiddle tunes in 1940. The song takes its name from the chorus:
- Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry.
- Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry.
The song is a series of unrelated, mostly nonsense, rhyming couplets, i.e.:
- Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey.
- Darkie picks the cotton, white man gets the money.
Modern covers of the song, in order to avoid racial offense, tend to replace above line with:
- Poor boy picks the cotton, Rich man gets the money.
When Wills was asked about the lines, he said they were just nonsense lyrics that he learned as a youth.[1]
Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys recorded “Take Me Back To Tulsa” in 1941 (OKeh 6101) and it became one of their larger hits. When played at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, it often included the lines:
- Would I like to go to Tulsa? Boy I sure would.
- Well, let me off at Archer, and I’ll walk down to Greenwood.
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys performed the song in his 1940 movie Take Me Back to Oklahoma. Spade Cooley’s Western Dance Gang also performed it in their 1944 short movie titled for the song, Take Me Back to Tulsa.
The song has been recorded by many other artists over the years.
Good job, I’m a huge Bob Wills fan. I appreciate your mastery of the doublestop, I’m still trying to learn how to control the bow well enough
Thanks, Gopher! I’m a huge Bob Wills fan as well. Mastering the double stop is a challenge, and mastering the bow might even be a bigger challenge. We have some great bowing exercises on http://www.myTalentForge.com. đ
Keep Fiddling!
Vi
#279B? Somebody lost count, I'll bet…
It's true, I lost track of what day it was. Recording a different fiddle tune a day for a full year was quite an undertaking. đ
Excellent musical performance !
Woohoo! Take me back to Tulsa. đ