Tabs by Casey Carr
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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.
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born in Okemah shoes
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with the Dust Bowl blues,
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a friend of the working man.
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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
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for the way they drove the migrant workers
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back over into Mexico way.
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and the scabs they run
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when they 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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wan?drin? and a-ramblin?
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driftin? with the midnight sand.
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He played the blues and the ballads
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and all that came between
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his heart was in the Union
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and his soul was reachin? out
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for the servant?s dream.
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Now I was talking to a man that met him
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in a bar near Clovis town.
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He said the whole place was a-shakin?
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as he was passing his songs around.
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In between the tunes he asked him
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where he?d be when the morrow came
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He said through his 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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I wander and I ramble
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and I drift with the midnight sand.
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I play the blues and the ballads
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and all that comes between
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my heart is in the Union
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and my soul is reachin? out
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for the servant?s dream.
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Now you know that 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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and I get to thinkin? that he?s still around.
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I?ll hold that his fires everlastin?
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Testify that his voice has rung true
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and the ramblin? man?s ris?
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and the kingdom?s his
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but his songs are for me and you.
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