Darlin' here's a photograph of my old high school class  No I ain't been back in quite a while  See there that's Emma Lou, the one I gave my heart to  But there's a story you can't see behind her smile  It was gonna last forever, we were gonna see the world  So I guess you're curious just what became of her, well    She's still there in Oklahoma  She's still seventeen  She's livin' with her Mama  Workin' at the Dairy Queen  And she's still standin' on the front porch  With a red ribbon in her hair  The rest of us have scattered everywhere  But she's still there    Everett went to Omaha, he majored in business law  Jill's in Arkansas with husband number two  That's her best friend Jolene, she joined up with the Marines  I hear Billy Green's on a beach in Malibu  Yes and Emma would be happy if she could only see us now  'Cause we're livin' out the lives that she only dreamed about    She's still there in Oklahoma  She's still seventeen  She's livin' with her Mama  Workin' at the Dairy Queen  And she's still standin' on the front porch  With a red ribbon in her hair  The rest of us have scattered everywhere  But she's still there    Lord, I know I'll never see her  With silver in her hair  I know she's really gone  But in my heart I'd swear    She's still there in Oklahoma  She's still seventeen  She's livin' with her Mama  Workin' at the Dairy Queen  And she's still standin' on the front porch  With a red ribbon in her hair  The rest of us have scattered everywhere  But she's still there    Emma's still there