Rock Star in A Collar

The church I serve just hosted an Engagement Party of LGBTQ couples in our state to 
announce their intention to wed, Date TDB (when it is legal).  Twenty Seven local clergy 
and a packed house of supporters attended the press conference and panel discussion.  
Thirty-one couples announced their engagement and were blessed.  And then during the dance party that followed, I debuted my new song "Dear Oklahoma" with Jared Tyler.  It is a love letter to my home.

Here are the lyrics to that song.  You can listen to that performance with Jared Tyler here.
(I am hoping to have a cd out in the Spring)

Dear Oklahoma

Got your red dirt in my veins  

Love the wind sweepin these plains

Sleep soundly to the music of your rain

See, My honey lamb and I

We believe you’re more than “fine”

But I need to ask you why

dear Oklahoma

Chorus

Dear Oklahoma

You made me who I am  

I am your daughter

help me understand

pray beneath the same blue skies

Watched tornados pass us by

can't you love me

If I love her  

dear Oklahoma

Met her 18 years ago

When we were teaching school

Lead by example and taught the golden rule

Still we’re told we don’t belong

And that how we love is wrong      

I’m staying put to sing this song

dear Oklahoma

Now we’re leavin’ Tulsa Town

To exchange our wedding vows  

Then home to again to work the fields we have plowed

One thing we don't understand

Despite how much we love this land

Why it's so hard to love us back

dear Oklahoma


It was a uniting of three of my identities in a very interesting way: Minister, Americana Singer/Songwriter/Rock Star (TYVM), and in a lesbian relationship. It was an integration long waiting to happen and I am so proud I can barely stand it.