Tuesday Trivia: September 26, 2023

Test your Oklahoma knowledge and win prizes by answering our weekly Tuesday Trivia question. Every week, we’ll choose a winner from the correct respondents to receive a prize—from an Okie sticker to a subscription to Oklahoma Today and more.

Ooooooooooklahoma is a dandy place to live and one of the states with the easiest-to-remember state songs, up there with "Georgia On My Mind" and Connecticut's "Yankee Doodle." But "Oklahoma!" was not always the state song of Oklahoma, likely because it wasn't written until 1943, a scant thirty-six years after statehood. In fact, it was a decade after the musical's opening that "Oklahoma!" was officially made the state song, thanks to future governor and then-State Rep. George Nigh.

Prior to 1953, the state song was one written by Kingfisher native Harriet Parker Camden and included more somber and reverent lyrics about sunflowers and fields of cotton.

What was Oklahoma's state song before "Oklahoma!"?