small town boy

[serendipity1]

in american films i have often heard the phrase( and i am not spelling this anywhere near correctly as i dont even know if im pronouncing it right)..oaky from wiscoagey-meaning somebody i think from a small town nobody knows . or, ..goddammit what does it mean and how do you spell and pronounce it?

[jno]

it's a celebration of US small-town values (possibly imaginary ones)

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/haggard-mer le/okie-from-muskogee-497.html

[jno]

as for what Okie means...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie

[serendipity1]

thnks jno ..it was one of those ones ive always wanted to know!

[dr john]

Kinky Friedman (the Texan Jewish singer / crime novelist who's running for Governor of Texas this year) did a version called "Proud To Be An A**hole From El Paso".

[BBWCHATT]

Serendipity1 - I live in the USA.
An Okie is someone from the state of Oklahoma here in the USA - Muskogee is a city in Oklahoma.