"Oklahoma!"

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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the songs from the musical "Oklahoma!" Specifically, it includes an analysis of "I'm Just a Girl who can't Say No." It asks how the song provides a transition from the text and what the song does for the musical. It also examines what the words and music reveal about the character.

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""I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No" is one of the most humorous songs in the musical "Oklahoma!" In it, Ado Annie, a kind of sad character who does not seem to have much chance of catching a man, talks about how she cannot say "no" to kisses and romance. "Other girls are coy an' hard to catch / But other girls ain't havin' any fun! / Ev'ry time I lose a wrastlin' match / I have a funny feelin' that I won!" (Oklahoma!). Annie recognizes that she may not be the most attractive of the girls, but she is a little more adventuresome, and so, she probably will have more fun in the end. Of course, she wants to get married just like the other girls, but she is more forward, so she has more problems catching a guy. When she sings to Ali Hakim, the traveling peddler, in his buggy, she is letting him know she is ready for romance, but not necessarily with him. She is really trying to make her boyfriend Will jealous, and it works, because she ends up marrying Will, so she becomes a girl who can say "yes." "

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