I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)

I'm just an old chunk of coal
 But I'm gonna be a diamond some day
 I'm gonna grow and glow 'til I'm so blue pure perfect
 I'm gonna put a smile on everybody's face
 I'm gonna kneel and pray every day
 Lest I should become vain along the way
 I'm just an old-a chunk of coal now Lord
 But I'm gonna be a diamond some day
 And I'm gonna learn the best words to walk
 Gonna search and find a better way to walk
 And I'm gonna spit and polish my old rough edged self
 Until I get rid of every single flaw
 Well, I'm gonna be the world's best friend
 Gonna go round shaking everybody's hand, yeah
 Well, I'm just and old chunk of coal now, Lord
 But I'm gon' be a diamond some day
 Yeah, I'm gonna be the cotton pickin' rage of the age
 Yeah, I'm gonna be a diamond some day
 Thank you, eh
 I got a good buddy of mine, he's from up Loco Hills, New Mexico
 And um, he uh, he came down one day and we went up to see his Grandfather
 Up near Oklahoma City, his full blood endin' and he was passin' on, is what happened, and...
 On the way up there, the way it does in Oklahoma a lot, it'll go to thunder and clouds will come up
 A little lightnin', everythin' and it won't rain
 Anyhow, we got up there to, we got up there to Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City
 And uh, and uh, what it is, we got a treaty with, uh, Indians, uh
 The government has a treaty with 'em, they supposed to give 'em the best hospital care there is
 But, uh, this old gentleman, he wound up in the women's wing of an old folks home
 Had, uh, looked like he endin' on a nickel, on his, layin' down, had tubes runnin' in his nose
 Anyhow, he passed on about five minutes and, uh
 Went on up to Tulsa up there, and played a gig up there and...
 Got to thank him about it and wrote this tune
 It's called Oklahoma Wind, we gon' do it for you