Boy From Oklahoma
Key: CCapo 5English
Verse
CTravelling across the Gcountry
Playing on the circuit Cline
Sometimes I think Amabout a man
Who was D7here before my G7time
FNamed for the 28th Cpresident
With a FGuthrie tacked to the Gend
Born in COkemah Gshoes
With the BbDust Bowl Fblues
He's a Gfriend of the working Cman
Verse
Now he wasn't fond of GNew York buildings
That tried to touch the Csky
Or the West Virginia Amcoal mines
That D7took so many G7lives
For the Fway they drove the migrant Cworkers
Back Finto Mexico Gway
The Cscabs they'd Grun
When they'd Bbheard he'd Fcome
And the Gbosses started to Cpray
Chorus
Just a Fboy from GOklahoma
On an Cendless one-night Amstand
FWandering and a-Grambling
CDrifting with the midnight Amsand
FSinging the blues and Gballads
And Cwhatever came Fbetween
Well his Dmheart was in the Union
But his Bbsoul was reaching Gout for the servant's Cdream
F G C
Verse
Now I was talking to a Gman
Met him in a bar near Clovis Ctown
He said the whole place was Amshaking
As they were D7passing his songs G7around
And Fthen somebody Casked him
Where he'd Fbe when tomorrow Gcame
He just Csaid with a Ggrin
"I put my Bbthumb in the Fwind
And I'm Goff down the road Cagain"
Chorus
Just a Fboy from GOklahoma
On an Cendless one-night Amstand
FWandering and a-Grambling
CDrifting with the midnight Amsand
FSinging the blues and Gballads
And Cwhatever came Fbetween
His Dmheart was in the Union
But his Bbsoul was reaching Gout for the servant's Cdream
F G C
Verse
Now you know Woody GGuthrie
Is dead and buried in the Cground
Sometimes I sing his Amsongs
I get to D7thinking that he's still G7around
'Cause his Ffire is Ceverlasting
His Fcourse was run Gtrue
That old Crambling man's Grisen
And the Bbkingdom is Fhis
But his Gsongs are for me and Cyou
Chorus
Just a Fboy from GOklahoma
On an Cendless one-night Amstand
FWandering and a-Grambling
CDrifting with the midnight Amsand
FPlaying the blues and Gballads
And Cwhatever he came Fbetween
His Dmheart was in the Union
His Bbsoul was reaching Gout for the servant's Cdream