I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)

I'm just an old chunk of coal

But I'm gonna be a diamond some day

I'm gonna grow and glow 'til I'm so blue pure perfect

I'm gonna put a smile on everybody's face

I'm gonna kneel and pray every day

Lest I should become vain along the way

I'm just an old-a chunk of coal now Lord

But I'm gonna be a diamond some day

And I'm gonna learn the best words to walk

Gonna search and find a better way to walk

And I'm gonna spit and polish my old rough edged self

Until I get rid of every single flaw

Well, I'm gonna be the world's best friend

Gonna go round shaking everybody's hand, yeah

Well, I'm just and old chunk of coal now, Lord

But I'm gon' be a diamond some day

Yeah, I'm gonna be the cotton pickin' rage of the age

Yeah, I'm gonna be a diamond some day

Thank you, eh

I got a good buddy of mine, he's from up Loco Hills, New Mexico

And um, he uh, he came down one day and we went up to see his Grandfather

Up near Oklahoma City, his full blood endin' and he was passin' on, is what happened, and...

On the way up there, the way it does in Oklahoma a lot, it'll go to thunder and clouds will come up

A little lightnin', everythin' and it won't rain

Anyhow, we got up there to, we got up there to Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City

And uh, and uh, what it is, we got a treaty with, uh, Indians, uh

The government has a treaty with 'em, they supposed to give 'em the best hospital care there is

But, uh, this old gentleman, he wound up in the women's wing of an old folks home

Had, uh, looked like he endin' on a nickel, on his, layin' down, had tubes runnin' in his nose

Anyhow, he passed on about five minutes and, uh

Went on up to Tulsa up there, and played a gig up there and...

Got to thank him about it and wrote this tune

It's called Oklahoma Wind, we gon' do it for you