Kate Wolf – Boy From Oklahoma (Guitar)

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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

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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"

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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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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

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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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Playing the blues and ballads

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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