Oklahoma Kids: a Kaleidoscope
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
© 2007 by Monty Harper.
About This Song
This
song is available on the Get
a Clue CD.This song is included in Monty's Oklahoma history assembly programs for K-5th grade.
This song was written for the 2007 summer library reading program theme in Oklahoma, celebrating our state's centennial birthday.
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