Boy From Oklahoma

	  		


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Travelling across the country 
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Playing on the circuit line 
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Sometimes I think about a man 
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Who was here before my time 
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Named for the 28th president 
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With a Guthrie tacked to the end 
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Born in Okemah shoes 
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With the Dust Bowl blues 
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He's a friend of the working man 


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Now he wasn't fond of New York buildings 
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That tried to touch the sky 
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Or the West Virginia coal mines  
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That took so many lives 
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For the way they drove the migrant workers 
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Back into Mexico way 
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The scabs they'd run 
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When they'd heard he'd come 
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And the bosses started to pray 

               
Chorus:  
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Just a boy from Oklahoma 
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On an endless one-night stand 
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Wandering and a-rambling 
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Drifting with the midnight sand 
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Singing the blues and ballads 
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And whatever came between 
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Well, his heart was in the Union 
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But his soul was reaching out for the servant's dream 


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Now I was talking to a man  
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M et him in a bar near Clovis town 
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He said the whole place was shaking 
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As they were passing his songs around 
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And then somebody asked him 
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Where he'd be when tomorrow came 
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He just said with a grin, 
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"I put my thumb in the wind 
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And I'm off down the road again" 


Chorus: 
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Just a boy from Oklahoma 
      C                 Am 
On an endless one-night stand 
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Wandering and a-rambling 
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Drifting with the midnight sand 
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Singing the blues and ballads 
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And whatever came between 
    Dm 
His heart was in the Union 
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But his soul was reaching out for the servant's dream 


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Now you know Woody Guthrie 
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Is dead and buried in the ground 
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Sometimes I sing his songs 
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I get to thinking that he's still around 
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'Cause his fire is everlasting 
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His course was run true 
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That old rambling man's risen 
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And the kingdom is his 
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But his songs are for me and you 

               
Chorus:      
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Just a boy from Oklahoma 
      C                 Am 
On an endless one-night stand 
F               G     
Wandering and a-rambling 
C                          Am 
Drifting with the midnight sand 
F                     G 
Playing the blues and ballads 
    C                  F 
And whatever he came between 
    Dm 
His heart was in the Union 
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His soul was reaching out for the servant's dream