(Wayland Holyfield)      Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma   It runs free and rambles, muddy and wide   Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma   It's gone forever and never looks back      I met her in Stillwell, she just turned twenty   A spirited beauty like I've never known   And me a dirt farmer who lived by the river   But she said she loved me and the free life I owned      We married in April and lived by the river   We worked that land from spring ‘til the fall   But I guess when the winter howled at our window   She couldn't help hearing that wild river call      Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma   It runs free and rambles, muddy and wide   Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma   It's gone forever and never looks back      She tried to conquer that wild rage within her   But something too strong ran deep in her soul   But I know she loved me, she cried like a baby   That cold winter evening she answered the call      Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma   It runs free and rambles, muddy and wide   Where the Arkansas River leaves Oklahoma   It's gone forever and never looks back.