Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Intro:
| D MajorD | D MajorD | G+G | G+G |
🎸 Verse 1:
G+G C majorC A augmentedA
Many years have come and gone, since I wandered from my home
D MajorD G+G
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born
C majorC A augmentedA
Many a page of life has turned, many a lesson I have learned
D MajorD G+G
And I feel that in those hills I still belong
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, ridin' a pony on the reservation
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
C majorC
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, a cowboy's life is my occupation
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC A7A7
As I sit here today many miles I am away
D MajorD G+G
From the place I rode my pony through the draw
C majorC A augmentedA
Where the oak and blackjack trees, kiss the playful prairie breeze
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, ridin' a pony on the reservation
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
C majorC
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, a cowboy's life is my occupation
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
🎸 Interlude:
| G+G | G+G | C majorC | C majorC |
| D7D7 | D7D7 | G+G | G+G |
| G+G | G+G | C majorC | C majorC |
| D MajorD | D MajorD | G+G | G+G |
🎸 Verse 3:
G+G C majorC A7A7
As I turn life a page, to the land of the great old sage
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
C majorC A7A7
While the black oil rolls and flows and the snow white cotton grows
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, ridin' a pony on the reservation
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
C majorC
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, a cowboy's life is my occupation
D MajorD G+G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born