Tabs by Casey Carr

         
     D5                    G5
Travelin? across the country
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playin? 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.
          D5       A5
born in Okemah shoes
           C5         G5
with the Dust Bowl blues,
                         D5
a friend of the working man.
        D5                     G5
Now he wasn?t partial to New York buildings
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that tried to touch the sky
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West Virginia coal mines that took so many lives
         G5                           D5
for the way they drove the migrant workers
      G5                A5
back over into Mexico way.
          D5         A5
and the scabs they run
            C5         G5
when they heard he?d come
                           D5
and the bosses started to pray.

              
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        G5            A5
Just a boy from Oklahoma
       D5                 B5
on an endless one-night stand
  G5              A5    
wan?drin? and a-ramblin?
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driftin? with the midnight sand.
      G5                       A5
He played the blues and the ballads
     D5               G5
and all that came between
     E5
his heart was in the Union
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and his soul was reachin? out
                    D5    A5    D5
for the servant?s dream.

            D5                    G5
Now I was talking to a man that met him
      A5                   D5
in a bar near Clovis town.
    D5                          B5
He said the whole place was a-shakin?
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as he was passing his songs around.
G5                         D5
In between the tunes he asked him
           G5                   A5
where he?d be when the morrow came
    D5                A5
He said through his grin,
           C5           G5
I put my thumb in the wind
                             D5
and I?m off down the road again.

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        G5            A5
Just a boy from Oklahoma
       D5                  B5
on an endless one-night stand
   G5             A5
I wander and I ramble
        D5                      B5
and I drift with the midnight sand.
    G5                       A5
I play the blues and the ballads
     D5                 G5
and all that comes between
    E5
my heart is in the Union
        C5                A5
and my soul is reachin? out
                    D5      A5      D5       
for the servant?s dream.

         D5                G5
Now you know that Woody Guthrie
              A5             D5
Is dead and buried in the ground
      D5                 B5
Sometimes I sing his songs
              E5                         A5
and I get to thinkin? that he?s still around.
       G5                       D5
I?ll hold that his fires everlastin?
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Testify that his voice has rung true
          D5             A5
and the ramblin? man?s ris?
          C5        G5
and the kingdom?s his
                              D5
but his songs are for me and you.

              
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