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	Em	Am
	Jesse lit us up and passed the b	ottle one more time

	Em
We used to smoke and drink a lot back t	hen

	Am
Thunder shook the heavens and the l	ightning danced the sky

	Em
Like i ain't seen since can't remember w	hen

Verse 2:

	Em	Am
	The Oklahoma kid laid dying i	n a women's wing

	Em
Just another indian biting d	ust

	Am
Clouds grew dark in promise but they d	idn't rain a thing

	Em
The government ain't something you can t	rust

Bridge:

	G	A	D	G
Oh the	Oklahoma w	ind slides acr	oss the burning s	and

	G/	A/	Em
Over	double crosse	s mother nature m	ade

Verse 3:

	Em	Am
	We picked a gig in Tulsa at the Ca	ins ballroom that night

	Em
The Oklahoma kid was dead and g	one

	Am
Rains still hadn't come but the cl	ouds still blacked the sky

	Em
That's when i took the time to write this song about the w	rong

Chorus:

	G	A	D	G
Oh the O	klahoma w	ind slides acr	oss the burning s	and

	A	Em
Over double crosse	s mother nature	made

	G	A	D	G
And n	othing's ever c	ome as f	ar as i'm conc	erned

	A	Em
From those dead tomorrows	planted yesterd	ay

Verse 4:(Waylon)

	Em	Am
	The white man took a chance and got his f	oot hung in the door

	Em
He sure as hell is gonna have his d	ay

	Am
The redman speaks his peace gain his l	ong lost dignity

	Em
Washington just turned the other w	ay

Verse 5:(Waylon)

	Em	Am
	Jesse spends his days in Loco H	ills New Mexico

	Em
Every night he drinks his fill of b	ooze

	Am
When Williams ghost is running he l	ays his money down

	Em
Winning just enough to lose to lose to l	ose ...

Chorus.(x2).

Thanks to David M. Potter (dmp12@cornell.edu) for the lyrics.

Perret Charles-Amir : perret@math.univ-mlv.fr

http://soleil.univ-mlv.fr/~perret/country.html

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