Take Me Back to Tulsa

"Take Me Back to Tulsa"
Single by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
B-side"New Worried Mind"
ReleasedMarch 1941
RecordedFebruary 26, 1941
StudioWBAP Studio, Blackstone Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas
GenreWestern swing
LabelOkeh 06101
Songwriter(s)Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys singles chronology
"Big Beaver"
(1940)		 "Take Me Back to Tulsa"
(1941)		 "Maiden's Prayer"
(1941)

"Take Me Back to Tulsa" is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan added words and music to the melody of the traditional fiddle tune "Walkin' Georgia Rose" in 1940. The song is one of eight country music performances selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll".

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