Boy From Oklahoma Chords

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 TraveDlin’ across the countGry

 playiAn’ on the circuit linDe

 sometDimes I think about a mBman

 who was heE7re before my tiAme.

 NaGmed for the 28th presDident

 with a GuGthrie tacked to the eAnd.

 born in OkDemah shoAes

 with the DuCst Bowl blGues,

 a friend of the working mDan.

 Now he wDasn’t partial to New YGork buildings

 that trAied to touch the sDky

 WesDt Virginia coal mBmines that tE7ook so many lA7ives

 for the wGay they drove the migrant woDrkers

 back oGver into Mexico wAay.

 and the scDabs they rAun

 when they heCard he’d cGome

 and the bosses started to pDray.

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 Just a bGoy from OklahAoma

 on an eDndless one-night sBmtand

 waGn’drin’ and a-rAamblin’

 drDiftin’ with the midnight sBmand.

 He plaGyed the blues and the baAllads

 and aDll that came betGween

 his hEmeart was in the Union

 and his sCoul was reachin’ oAut

 for the servant’s drDeam. Am D

 Now I was taDlking to a man that mGet him

 in a bAar near Clovis town.D

 He sDaid the whole place was a-sBmhakin’

 as he was pE7assing his songs arA7ound.

GIn between the tunes he asDked him

 where he’d Gbe when the morrow cAame

 He sDaid through his gArin,

 I put my thCumb in the wGind

 and I’m off down the road agaDin.

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 Just a bGoy from OklahAoma

 on an eDndless one-night stBmand

 I wGander and I raAmble

 and I drDift with the midnight sBmand.

 I plGay the blues and the balAlads

 and aDll that comes betwGeen

 my hEmeart is in the Union

 and my sCoul is reachin’ oAut

 for the servant’s drDeam. Am D

 Now you kDnow that Woody GuGthrie

 Is dead and buAried in the grDound

 SometiDmes I sing his sonBmgs

 and I get to tE7hinkin’ that he’s still aroA7und.

 I’ll hoGld that his fires everlaDstin’

 TeGstify that his voice has rung tArue

 and the raDmblin’ man’s rAis’

 and the kiCngdom’s hGis

 but his songs are for me and yDou.

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