from musical play "Oklahoma!"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Words by Oscar Hammerstein
1943
Until the moment of impact, Freddie had been in the best of spirits, feeling, like the gentleman in Oklahoma, that everything was coming his way. As he started to walk up Bond Street, he was not actually singing 'Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!', but it would not have required a great deal of encouragement to induce him to do so.
Ice in the Bedroom. Chapter 11