Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
F#
C#
F#
If you gather round me children,
B
F#
a story I will tell
It was in the town of Shawnee,
F#
B
C#
His wife beside him in his wagon,
F#
D#m
As in the town they ruled,
B
F#
in a manner rather rude,
B
C#
Usin' vulgar words of language,
and his wife
grabbed a log chain
B
F#
and the deputy grabbed his gun
B
C#
and in the fight that followed
F#
D#m
F#
he laid that deputy down
he fled to the hills and woodland
B
F#
to live a life of shame
B
C#
every crime in oklahoma
Now there's many a starvin' farmer
B
F#
The same old story told
Bm
B
C#
How this outlaw paid their mortgage
Others tell you of a stranger
B
F#
Come to beg a meal
B
C#
and underneath his napkin
Was in Oklahoma City
B
F#
it was on a Christmas Day
B
C#
There come a whole carload of gro ceries
You say that I'm an outlaw,
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F#
you say that I'm a thief
B
C#
Now here's a Christmas dinner
Now as through this world
I've rambled,
B
F#
I've seen lots of fighting men
B
C#
Some will rob you with a six -gun,
And it's through your
life you've traveled,
B
C#
You won't never see an outlaw
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# C# B D#m Bm
F#
C#
B
D#m
Bm
Capo: 4
Transpose: 0
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