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Thread #281 Message #3162928
Posted By: Joe Offer
31-May-11 - 02:10 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Oklahoma Hills (Jack & Woody Guthrie)
Subject: ADD Version: Oklahoma Hills (Jack & Woody Guthrie)
Following Dale's suggestion, I found the Jack Guthrie recording on Spotify, and it's terrific. I thought I'd post my transcription of the Jack Guthrie recording:
OKLAHOMA HILLS
(Jack Guthrie and Woody Guthrie)
Many months has come and gone
Since I wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma Hills where I was born
Many a page of life has turned
Many a lesson I have learned
Well, I feel like in those hills I still belong.
CHORUS:
'Way down yonder in the Indian nation
I ride my pony on the reservation
In those Oklahoma Hills where I was born
Now, 'way down yonder in the Indian nation
A cowboy's life is my occupation
In those Oklahoma Hills where I was born.
But as I sit here today
Many miles I am away
From a place I rode my pony through the draw
While the oak and blackjack trees
Kiss the playful prairie breeze
In those Oklahoma Hills where I was born.
Now as I turn life a page
To the land of the great Osage
In those Oklahoma Hills where I was born
While the black oil, it rolls and flows
And the snow-white cotton grows
In those Oklahoma Hills where I was born.
Copyright Jack and Woody Guthrie
Note the quote above in the message from John in Kansas: It has always been my impression that Woody wrote the words and Leon wrote the Music. - Wava Guthrie Blake.