Boy From Oklahoma Chords
by Kate Wolf
Boy From Oklahoma by Kate Wolf is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords C, G, Am, D7, G7, F and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
th Fret
C G
Travelling across the country
C
Playing on the circuit line
Am
Sometimes I think about a man
D7 G7
Who was here before my time
F C
Named for the 28th president
F G
With a Guthrie tacked to the end
C G
Born in Okemah shoes
Bb F
With the Dust Bowl blues
G C
He's a friend of the working man
G
Now he wasn't fond of New York buildings
C
That tried to touch the sky
Am
Or the West Virginia coal mines
D7 G7
That took so many lives
F C
For the way they drove the migrant workers
F G
Back into Mexico way
C G
The scabs they'd run
Bb F
When they'd heard he'd come
G C
And the bosses started to pray
Chorus: