Boy From Oklahoma Willis Alan Ramsey

Travelin' across the country
Playin' on the circuit line
Sometimes I think about a man
Who was here before my time
Named for the 28th president
With a Guthrie tacked to the end
Born in Okemah shoes
With the Dust Bowl blues
A friend of the working man

Now he wasn't partial to New York buildings
That tried to touch the sky
West Virginia coal mines that took so many lives
For the way they drove the migrant workers
Back over into Mexico way
And the scabs they run
When they heard he'd come
And the bosses started to pray

Just a boy from Oklahoma
On an endless one-night stand
Wan'drin' and a-ramblin'
Driftin' with the midnight sand
He played the blues and the ballads
And all that came between
His heart was in the Union
And his soul was reachin' out
For the servant's dream