Misc Musicals – The Outsiders - Tulsa 67 (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
G          Em          C       G
I've never been out of Tulsa before

  Em          C           G
I wonder what it would be like

G          Em       C       G
I've never known anybody to leave

     Em         C              G
Most people get stuck here for life

Am                         G
My brother could've been a football star

Am                         G
People say he had a ticket out

   Am                           G
My other brother suffers from a broken heart

       Am                              D
From a girl he loved who up and moved away
[Verse 2]
G         Em          C           G
We got no parents, We fend for ourselves

        Em        C           G
There's no one to show us thе way

   G            Em          C              G
My brothers are trying, But they'rе always out

     Em            C           G
Just working their poor lives away

D                       Am
My name is Ponyboy, The youngest of the three

  C                                      G
I know there's so much more to life than what's in front of me

     D                             Am
So I sneak into the movies just to glimpse the other side

       C                              D
Rather take a risk and see it than to never even try
[Bridge 1]
F         C              G
When I am looking up and Newman's on the screen

Am         C                     Em
The entire world just melts away

F         C              G
And for a moment I'm not worried 'bout a thing

F          C                F
I just sit back and let the movie start to play
[Bridge 2]
    A#            F              C               G
But unlike in the movies and the books I like to read

A#              F                  C             
Nothing in this town plays out the same

     A#             F                   C              G
They tell me it was different back when we could all agree

A#                 F                C
Somewhere down the line we lost our way

       G                    C
We had places to go, we had things to do

        G                      C
So they took one town and they split it in two

    G                        C
The money went west take the grease to the east

    G                  C
The train ran down the belly of the beast

    G                    C
And here we are now, I'm talkin' to you

       G                       C
When I get to the end, Tell me what should I do

     F                   C
In a town that's torn in two,

         F                                     C      D
What's a Greaser from the eastside s'pposed to do
[Chorus]
       G      Em      C    G
This is Tulsa 1967

           G         Em                C      G
And there's just one thing you need to know

       G             Em          C               G
You got greasers and socs that's how it's always been

           Em                C            G
And that's probably how it's always gonna go
[Verse 3]
         G              Em           C           G
There's another side of Tulsa that I hardly ever see

     Em                C          G
It's like some kind of fairy tale land

    G               Em              C                  G
The grass is always greener and the streets are always clean

Em                C                D
All the girls are pretty there and all the guys are mean

Am                            G
We call them Socs 'cause they live like socialites

Am                       G
Barbecues and graduation days

Am                             G
With better clothes and better cars and better lives

Am                 D
Just one town, two very different ways

    Em          G              C               G
But over on the East Side, the story's not the same

 Em             G                 C             G
Another rundown building, another broken window pane

    Em             G                C           G
The cars no longer runnin’, sitting idle in the yard

        Am                                  C
They're building up the West Side while the East Side falls apart
[Verse 4]
     Em            G                      C              G
This town, it only holds ya down, there's judgement everywhere

          Em          G               C                 G
And people think they know you by the way you wear your hair

          Em            G                  C            G
If you're not born into money, then you're born into despair

            D                                 C        G
And they'll do all that they can to keep your poor ass there
[Bridge 3]
D                               Am
We gave ourselves a name 'cause we don't have a lot

C                             G
We stick together 'cause each other's all we got

D                         Am
We take a lot of pride in how we grease our hair

C                              D
People look us up and down and we don't even care

                        F
'Cause we're Greasers

       C                                  G
Making something out of nothing, but it’s something that a Soc ain't got

                 F
We're Greasers

      C                         Dm                         D
Ain't never gonna change and it really don't matter if you like it or not
[Chorus]
  G      Em      C    G
This is Tulsa 1967

           G         Em                C      G
And there's just one thing you need to know

       G             Em          C               G
You got greasers and socs that's how it's always been

           Em                C            G
And that's probably how it's always gonna go

           Em                C            G
And that's probably how it's always gonna go

           Em                C            G
And that's probably how it's always gonna go