Monty Harper Songbook

Oklahoma Kids: A Kaleidoscope - song lyric

We are Oklahoma kids
We are Oklahoma's future
We shine bright with every color
A Kaleidoscope

We speak Chinese we speak Spanish
We speak Arabic and English
Some among us hear our Grandpas
Speaking Cherokee or Choctaw

We are dark skinned we are light skinned
We are cowboys we are Indians
We have ancestors who came here
For a thousand different reasons

Some laid tracks that brought the train
Some drove cattle some grew grain
Some were soldiers others oilmen
Some were slaves and some were freemen

Some rode in on covered wagons
Others walked from distant homelands
We were born here we were brought here
Somehow all our families got here

So we share a common land we call our own

We are Oklahoma kids
We are Oklahoma's future
We shine bright with every color
A Kaleidoscope

We're explorers and we're tryers
We're bike riders and kite flyers
We play baseball, we play soccer
She's a rapper, he's a rocker

From the cities to the rural routes
We are Brownies; we are Boy Scouts
We do Tae Kwon Do and ballet
And we dream what we'll be someday

We'll be singers with guitars
We'll be athletes; we'll be stars
We'll be scientists and teachers
Veterinarians and preachers

We'll build roads and we'll build robots
We'll be farmers we'll be astronauts
However far we end up going
Today we're learning and we're growing

Here together in this land we call our home

We are Oklahoma kids
We are Oklahoma's future
We shine bright with every color
A Kaleidoscope



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This song is featured in the June 2007 edition of the Kids Music Planet Podcast.

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The melody in this song is beautiful, and sings of pride in being an Oklahoma child.