Earl Fando, at the Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas (WARNING! St*r Tr*k alert!), sent in a whole soundtrack of Oklahoma! parodies, far too many to reproduce. I am posting this mainly, in fact, because Earl’s closing plea touched my heart: “Please include name if used, because, quite frankly, we need the blinking publicity.” Samples:

Oh, what beautiful atheists.
Oh, what a confusin’ way.
They state with absolute certainty,
Then complain when we act the same way.
Oh, what a confusin’ way!
Don’t sigh and patronise me.
Your sitch [? what’s a sitch?–JD] is so like mine.
You say you don’t have faith like mine but
Agnostics will say we’re alike!
It ain’t so much a question of not knowin’ whut to do– I’ve knowed what’s right an’ wrong since I’ve been ten. I’ve heared a lot of stories but I’m doubtin’ they’re true, About how God created all men. I know they say I’ll fall into the pit, But when I think about it– I fergit! I’m just a girl who cain’t say ‘maybe’… Etc. etc.

[Derb] I note that Earl, like many another reader today, seems to have Heather Mac Donald on the brain.