Boy From Oklahoma Chords

KeyC Capo5st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays487

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.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			


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:

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante