Chords for Mike McClure "Pink, OK" (acoustic) on the Texas Msuic Scene
Tempo:
80.5 bpm
Chords used:
C
F
G
D
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G] The Yellow House [A] in Stillwater, Oklahoma, near the campus of Oklahoma State [D] University,
was the [C#m] site of many of the early [Bm] musical collaboration that formed the core of the Red Dirt side [G] of our music scene,
with songwriters Stoney LaRue, [A] Jason Bouldin, Cody Canada, and [D] Mike McClure.
Here's the front man of the Great Divide with an acoustic performance of Pink Oklahoma,
in this edition of The Yellow House Revisited.
How y'all doing?
[C] This song is called Pink Oklahoma.
It's about some of my family, how they grew up.
My great grandpa [F] [C] was Elmo Lewis.
[D] [F] In Pink Oklahoma, [C] way back when,
he was a farming [G] man,
[F] had watermelons [Cm] and [G] moonshine,
[F] till they [G] hauled him off to the living [C] worth pen.
Jack was his oldest boy,
[F] and he [D] went off to the [G] big war.
But he got [F] gunned down,
out [C] on Peleliu.
[G] I [C] got a picture [G] in his uniform,
[F]
[G] standing next to his mama,
[F] [Cm] and the look on her face said,
[Gm]
[C] that she already knew.
[Em] And [Am] they grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times.
[C] Yeah, but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on the dark to pass.
[Am] And when I walked that field,
of bone and [F] stone,
I pulled the weeds up,
that have [C] grown around the names,
that have passed [G] on,
and it binds me,
to [D] my own,
[F] and reminds me,
I'm not alone,
on this [C] long road,
[B] [C] winding home.
[G] [Dm] [G]
[F] [Am] [F] [C]
[G] [C] [F] [C]
[F] [C] [G]
[C] Yeah, I found my Pauline,
[F] that was my dad's [C] mother.
Her [F] daddy's name was Carol.
[C] He played a mandolin.
I got an old black diamond string,
[F] [C] hanging up on my wall,
[G] [F] and I liked to know [C] at once,
[G] that it [C] belonged to him.
There was Lucy and Patsy,
[F] there was Bill and [C] Claudine,
there's Emma and Mamie,
[G] Mamie [C] Irene.
[G] And they [A] grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times,
[C] but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on that dark to [C] pass.
[A] And when I walked that field,
[Am] of bone and stone,
[F] I pulled the weeds up,
that have grown [C] around the names,
that have passed on,
[G] and it binds me,
to my own,
and [F] reminds me,
I'm not alone,
on this long [E] [D] road,
[B] [C] winding home.
My great [G] grandpa,
[F] Mr.
Elmo [C] Lewis.
[Gm] [E] Thanks [A] for listening.
[C]
was the [C#m] site of many of the early [Bm] musical collaboration that formed the core of the Red Dirt side [G] of our music scene,
with songwriters Stoney LaRue, [A] Jason Bouldin, Cody Canada, and [D] Mike McClure.
Here's the front man of the Great Divide with an acoustic performance of Pink Oklahoma,
in this edition of The Yellow House Revisited.
How y'all doing?
[C] This song is called Pink Oklahoma.
It's about some of my family, how they grew up.
My great grandpa [F] [C] was Elmo Lewis.
[D] [F] In Pink Oklahoma, [C] way back when,
he was a farming [G] man,
[F] had watermelons [Cm] and [G] moonshine,
[F] till they [G] hauled him off to the living [C] worth pen.
Jack was his oldest boy,
[F] and he [D] went off to the [G] big war.
But he got [F] gunned down,
out [C] on Peleliu.
[G] I [C] got a picture [G] in his uniform,
[F]
[G] standing next to his mama,
[F] [Cm] and the look on her face said,
[Gm]
[C] that she already knew.
[Em] And [Am] they grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times.
[C] Yeah, but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on the dark to pass.
[Am] And when I walked that field,
of bone and [F] stone,
I pulled the weeds up,
that have [C] grown around the names,
that have passed [G] on,
and it binds me,
to [D] my own,
[F] and reminds me,
I'm not alone,
on this [C] long road,
[B] [C] winding home.
[G] [Dm] [G]
[F] [Am] [F] [C]
[G] [C] [F] [C]
[F] [C] [G]
[C] Yeah, I found my Pauline,
[F] that was my dad's [C] mother.
Her [F] daddy's name was Carol.
[C] He played a mandolin.
I got an old black diamond string,
[F] [C] hanging up on my wall,
[G] [F] and I liked to know [C] at once,
[G] that it [C] belonged to him.
There was Lucy and Patsy,
[F] there was Bill and [C] Claudine,
there's Emma and Mamie,
[G] Mamie [C] Irene.
[G] And they [A] grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times,
[C] but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on that dark to [C] pass.
[A] And when I walked that field,
[Am] of bone and stone,
[F] I pulled the weeds up,
that have grown [C] around the names,
that have passed on,
[G] and it binds me,
to my own,
and [F] reminds me,
I'm not alone,
on this long [E] [D] road,
[B] [C] winding home.
My great [G] grandpa,
[F] Mr.
Elmo [C] Lewis.
[Gm] [E] Thanks [A] for listening.
[C]
Key:
C
F
G
D
A
C
F
G
[G] _ The Yellow House [A] in Stillwater, Oklahoma, near the campus of Oklahoma State [D] University,
was the [C#m] site of many of the early [Bm] musical collaboration that formed the core of the Red Dirt side [G] of our music scene,
with songwriters Stoney LaRue, [A] Jason Bouldin, Cody Canada, and [D] Mike McClure.
Here's the front man of the Great Divide with an acoustic performance of Pink Oklahoma,
in this edition of The Yellow House Revisited.
How y'all doing?
[C] _ This song is called Pink Oklahoma.
It's about some of my family, how they grew up. _ _ _
_ _ _ My great grandpa [F] [C] was Elmo Lewis.
[D] _ [F] In Pink Oklahoma, _ [C] way back when,
_ he was a farming [G] man,
[F] had watermelons [Cm] and [G] moonshine,
[F] till they [G] hauled him off to the living [C] worth pen.
_ Jack was his oldest boy,
[F] and he [D] went off to the [G] big war.
_ But he got [F] gunned down,
out [C] on Peleliu.
[G] I [C] got a picture [G] in his uniform,
[F]
[G] standing next to his mama,
_ [F] [Cm] and the look on her face said,
[Gm] _
[C] that she already knew.
_ [Em] And [Am] they grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times.
[C] Yeah, but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on the dark to pass.
[Am] And when I walked that field,
of bone and [F] stone,
I pulled the weeds up,
that have [C] grown around the names,
that have passed [G] on,
and it binds me,
to [D] my own,
[F] and reminds me,
I'm not alone,
_ on this [C] long road,
[B] [C] winding home.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ Yeah, I found my Pauline,
[F] that was my dad's [C] mother.
_ Her [F] daddy's name was Carol.
[C] He played a mandolin.
I got an old black diamond string,
[F] [C] hanging up on my wall,
[G] [F] and I liked to know [C] at once,
[G] that it [C] belonged to him.
There was Lucy and Patsy,
[F] there was Bill and [C] Claudine,
_ there's Emma and Mamie,
[G] _ Mamie [C] Irene.
_ [G] And they [A] grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times,
[C] but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on that dark to [C] pass.
[A] And when I walked that field,
[Am] of bone and stone,
[F] I pulled the weeds up,
that have grown [C] around the names,
that have passed on,
[G] and it binds me,
to my own,
and [F] reminds me,
I'm not alone,
on this long [E] [D] road,
[B] [C] winding home. _
My great [G] grandpa,
[F] Mr.
Elmo [C] Lewis. _
[Gm] _ _ [E] Thanks [A] for listening.
_ _ [C] _
was the [C#m] site of many of the early [Bm] musical collaboration that formed the core of the Red Dirt side [G] of our music scene,
with songwriters Stoney LaRue, [A] Jason Bouldin, Cody Canada, and [D] Mike McClure.
Here's the front man of the Great Divide with an acoustic performance of Pink Oklahoma,
in this edition of The Yellow House Revisited.
How y'all doing?
[C] _ This song is called Pink Oklahoma.
It's about some of my family, how they grew up. _ _ _
_ _ _ My great grandpa [F] [C] was Elmo Lewis.
[D] _ [F] In Pink Oklahoma, _ [C] way back when,
_ he was a farming [G] man,
[F] had watermelons [Cm] and [G] moonshine,
[F] till they [G] hauled him off to the living [C] worth pen.
_ Jack was his oldest boy,
[F] and he [D] went off to the [G] big war.
_ But he got [F] gunned down,
out [C] on Peleliu.
[G] I [C] got a picture [G] in his uniform,
[F]
[G] standing next to his mama,
_ [F] [Cm] and the look on her face said,
[Gm] _
[C] that she already knew.
_ [Em] And [Am] they grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times.
[C] Yeah, but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on the dark to pass.
[Am] And when I walked that field,
of bone and [F] stone,
I pulled the weeds up,
that have [C] grown around the names,
that have passed [G] on,
and it binds me,
to [D] my own,
[F] and reminds me,
I'm not alone,
_ on this [C] long road,
[B] [C] winding home.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ Yeah, I found my Pauline,
[F] that was my dad's [C] mother.
_ Her [F] daddy's name was Carol.
[C] He played a mandolin.
I got an old black diamond string,
[F] [C] hanging up on my wall,
[G] [F] and I liked to know [C] at once,
[G] that it [C] belonged to him.
There was Lucy and Patsy,
[F] there was Bill and [C] Claudine,
_ there's Emma and Mamie,
[G] _ Mamie [C] Irene.
_ [G] And they [A] grew up,
just off Highway 9,
[F] and they lived through,
some awful times,
[C] but they still laughed in their photographs,
as [G] they waited,
on that dark to [C] pass.
[A] And when I walked that field,
[Am] of bone and stone,
[F] I pulled the weeds up,
that have grown [C] around the names,
that have passed on,
[G] and it binds me,
to my own,
and [F] reminds me,
I'm not alone,
on this long [E] [D] road,
[B] [C] winding home. _
My great [G] grandpa,
[F] Mr.
Elmo [C] Lewis. _
[Gm] _ _ [E] Thanks [A] for listening.
_ _ [C] _