All life we work but work is a bore If life's for livin', what's livin' for? She lives in a house that's near decay Built for the industrial revolution But in her dreams she is far away In Oklahoma, U.S.A With Shirley Jones and Gordon McRea As she buys her paper at the corner shop She's walkin' on the surrey with the fringe on top 'Cause in her dreams she is far away In Oklahoma, U.S.A She walks to work but she's still in a daze She's Rita Hayworth or Doris Day And Errol Flynn's gonna take her away To Oklahoma, U.S.A All life we work but work is a bore If life's for livin' then what's livin' for?