Chords for “Okie from Muskogee” Dwight Yoakum on 8/5/22@NorthernQuestResortCasino

[A] excited about the album it's still only it's come out but it hadn't come out yet he told me come
out you know after on the bus i want to [N] play something so after the show i went out there
on the trip for willie's bus on the way there i was thinking about it i was gonna tease you and
ask if he recorded this particular song so i got on the bus and i said now willie let me ask you
all right did you _ willie where are you willie so i can't i can't see you willie _ this this is
before he baked i said willie you _ _ think i'm kidding you that bus was legendary you come
off of there with about a year-long contact time it was amazing [D] when he started vaping [N] i went on
there you know over the years a lot i looked around man i didn't know the
lip work was so pretty in here williams was amazing but
_ _ [A] i said
[C] well _
[E] [C] let me i [C#] said let me i got hold of him i said [N] oh i got you i had his beard i said let me
let me ask you something did you uh
started to sound like foster brooks that tells your age if you laugh at that
i _ said willie did you did you record this song
through the smoke and the haze i saw his twinkling eyes smiling at me and he said oh yeah i did
that's that's the best william person he's trying to do oh yeah i did bad for one second oh yeah i did _ _ _
sit yeah i used to well i did stuff on [G] willies i would do
[G] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] as _ _ _ _ _ [G] we _ _ tracked down the runway
and the [D] name about me how i feel
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] oh _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [N] it's
but i digress _ _ _ really [Am] seriously you see what [D] that bus will do to you pretty soon i'll be singing
_ just [Am] drifting off into my [D] willy thoughts _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Em] _ [D] today
[G] freak set the [D] raging
black stallion [Em] and walking [E] the [A] high road today.
_ _ [G] _ [D]
The red-headed stranger had eyes like thunder
and lips that were [A] sad as tide.
_ _ _ [Em] _ [N] What was I talking about that led me there?
Oh, Willie.
OK.
Yeah.
_ What's up?
I'm going to tell you in all seriousness,
that song is legendary because it's one of the greatest songs
[A] ever written in country music in terms of what it [Dm] did
in the moment, in [A#] the year that that came out.
I was in college when that album, Red-Headed [E] Stranger, came out.
And it did more to, I [F] think, [Cm] spearhead modern [N] country music
and cause a whole other generation of young singers and songwriters
to realize [D] that country music could still be pertinent.
I [F#] mean, Emmylou and Brian are hurting the records [C#] they were making
on the West Coast was also a seminal signal to everybody
that was [A#m] going to try and pursue a career in country music
that there was a profound way to express yourself with [N] country music
that could still appeal to a huge audience.
And Willie's Red-Headed [B] Stranger album did [N] that for him.
_ _ [G#m] So _
[D] meanwhile, I said, [N] he said, oh, yeah, I did.
I said, you're kidding.
He said, no, if _ _ _ [A] I'm going to have to swear, I'll try to throw it to my drummer
[N] to scare the audience and use my use for fanfare.
Every time I lose a drummer, it doesn't mean I'm swearing.
_ So I said, you're kidding.
[A] Because I was shocked.
See if you're shocked [C#m] because I was.
Willie said, that's my [G] favorite Merle Haggard song.
I don't believe Willie.
He said, [D] well, yeah, it is.
We don't smoke marijuana and eat the ghosts.
_ We don't take our trips down L [A].A. streets.
_ Oh, and we don't find our trash cans down on Main Street.
_ Yeah, because we like to live right, [D] set free.
We _ don't need a party out of love.
_ [Bm] [D] We like to hold hands and [A] kiss and move.
Oh, and we're in that long straight.
_ Like the hippies out in San [D] Francisco. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
We're sweet.
_ _ [A] _
Oh, _ we still cry. _ _
Why?
_ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
Hey.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Hey. _ _ _
Oh, [B] oh, _ _ _ _ _
_ oh, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [B] _ oh, _ _ _
_ why? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ The door. _ _ _ _
Hey.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _