Chords for OKLAHOMA "Curly's Marriage Proposal To Laurey"

_ _ _ _ _ Hey Laurie, _ _ you see Nanny?
She's gone again.
_ _ _ _ [E] Will you do something for me?
Will you find Curly and [Db] tell him I'm here?
I want to see Curly awful bad.
I've got to see him.
Why don't you turn around and [Gb] look, crazy woman? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, you found yours.
[Db] I'm still looking for mine.
_ [Gb] Well, now what on earth is Aileen Novella [Gbm]-Clymore?
_ I'll come if you ain't crying.
Curly, I'm afraid.
Afraid of my life.
I've been told to.
Don't you leave me.
Gosh, you're mighty.
Don't mind me crying.
[Ab] I can't help it. _
You cry your eyes out.
I don't know what.
[A] _ _
_ [E] Well, here.
I'll show you.
[A] _
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[Db] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Bb] That's about all a man can stand in public.
Now, you go away from here, you hear?
You don't like me?
I like you.
You get away from me, I tell you.
Plumb away from me.
_ _ _ [Ab] Curly, you're sitting on the stove.
No!
_ _ _ _ _ As cold as a hunk of ice.
You wish you'd have burned a hole in your pants.
Oh, you do, do you?
You heard me.
Now, look, Laurie.
_ Laurie, you stand right there where you are.
_ And I'll sit right over here.
_ _ _ _ _ Now, you tell her what you wanted with me. _ _ _ _
_ Mom, Judd was here.
He scared me.
He talked [Bb] wild and he threatened me, so I_
I fired him.
Oh, I wished I had,
and there ain't no telling what he might do now.
You fired him? _ _
Well, then, that's all there is to it.
_ I'll stay in the place myself tonight.
If you're nervous about that, hound dog.
Now, look, you quit your worry or I'll spank you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Hey. _ _ _ _
_ While I think of it,
[E] _ _ _
[F] how about [Bb] marrying me? _ _ _ _ _
_ Gracious.
_ _ I don't want to marry you [Abm] first.
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[Bm] Couldn't you maybe think of some reason why you might?
[B] _ _ _
_ [E] _ Can't think of nothing right now.
[Db] _
[Gb] Laurie.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
Laurie, [Db] _ please, ma'am.
[Gbm] Marry me.
_ _ [Abm] _ _ I don't know what I'm going to do if you don't.
_ [B] _ [Eb] Curly, why, I'll marry [Bbm] you if you [Eb] want me to.
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_ _ [Gm] Laurie.
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[D] Laurie.
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_ [C] _ I'll be the [Em] happiest man alive as soon as we're married.
[Am] _ [C] Well, got to learn to be a farmer.
I can see that.
Quit thinking about throwing that rope
and start in [Em] to get my hands blistered [E] a new way.
Things is changing, [Dm] Laurie, right and left.
Buy up [G] mowing machines and cut down the prairies.
[C] Shoe your horses and drag them plows under the sod.
[Em] They're going to [E] make a state out of this.
They're going to put it in a union.
_ [Am] Countries are changing.
I got to change [D] with it. _
[C] We'll bring up [G] a pair of boys.
Curly.
[A] A whole new stock to keep up with the way [G] things is going
in this here crazy [C] country. _ _
[Em] Now I got you to help [Gm] me.
I'm not to something yet.
_ [Fm] _ _
_ [Bbm] Remember the first [Ab] time I ever seen you?
[Eb] It was at the fair.
You was riding that great filly of blue stars
and I [Bbm] says to someone, I says,
who's that skinny little thing with the bang on her forehead?
Yeah, I [Ab] remember.
And you was riding broncs that day.
That's right.
One of them thowed you.
[Eb] Yeah.
_ He did not thow me.
Guess you jumped off then.
[Db] Why, sure I jumped off.
Yeah, you sure did.
_ [Fm] _ _ [Db] _ _ Hey!
If there's anybody out and around this yacht can hear [Bbm] my voice,
[Ebm] I want them to know that Miss Lori [Db] Williams is my girl.
Curly.
Ha ha!
And she went and got me to ask her to marry me.
[Bbm] They'll hear you all the way to Catoosie.
Let them.
_ [Gb] _ _ Let people [Ab] say we're in [Db] _ love.
_ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ Who _ [Fm] _
cares [Db] what happens _ now?
_ _ Just [Bbm] keep [Fm] _
[Ab] your hand in mine. _ _ _
[Db] Your [Bbm] hand [Fm] _ [Eb] feels so grand in [Bbm] mine.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ebm] Let [D] people say [Db] we're in love. _ _