Kansas City (Oklahoma!)

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"Kansas City" is a song from the musical Oklahoma!. In this 1942 light opera, the plot set-up for this tune is the return of cowboy Will Parker from an excursion to Kansas City. He describes his experiences in song.

The tune starts out:

I got to Kansas City on a Frid'y,

By Satiday I learnt a thing er two..."

Everythings up to date in Kansas City,

They've gone about as fur as they can go..."

The song continues to describe the wonders of this city and its entertainments (from the viewpoint of a country bumpkin), all reprising with the concept that the conditions (in 1906) represent the ultimate in progress with little more expected.

Trivia

The building mentioned in the song that is 7 stories tall is most likely the NEW YORK LIFE building, which was the tallest building in Kansas City at the turn of the twentieth century.

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