I Ain't In Checotah Anymore

No Capo

Note:  The C chord fingering changes a little bit in
the intro, the first part of the song and the ending C chord.
You can play it as X32013 first and then play it right after
that as 332010.


Intro: C F C G

       C
Where 69 meets 40,

There's a single stop light town,
     F
And back when I was really young,
 Am                      G
Part of that burned down,
    C
On any given Friday night,

We'd drive a hundred miles,
              F
Between the Sonic and the Grocery Store,
  Am                   G
Laughin' all the while,
         Am             G
With as many friends as I could pack,
 F
In my daddy's Ford,
       Am   G     F             C
But I ain't in Checotah anymore.

     C
My hotel in Manhattan,
             F
Holds more people than our town,
         C
And what I just paid for dinner,
                   G
Would be a down payment on a house,
                Am              G
I'd rather be tippin' cows in Tulsa,
              F
Then hailing cabs here in New York,
       Am   G     F             C
But I ain't in Checotah anymore.


Chorus:
                F
I'm in a world so wide,
                   C
It makes me feel small sometimes,
           Am             G
I miss the big blue skies,
          F
The Oklahoma kind.


       C
In a world of long red carpets,
             F
The bright lights of Hollywood,
            C
All the paparazzi flashin'
            G
Can make a girl feel pretty good,
               Am         G
You can get anything you want here,
  F
Except a Wal-Mart store,
       Am   G     F             C
But I ain't in Checotah anymore.


Chorus:
                F
I'm in a world so wide,
                   C
It makes me feel small sometimes,
           Am             G
I miss the big blue skies,
          F
The Oklahoma kind.


             G
Where the Wildcats beat the Ironheads,

Old Settler's day and the Okrafest,

After prom down at the bowling lanes,

Catchin' crappy fish in Eufaula lake,
   Am   G     F             Fsus4
I ain't in Checotah anymore.

F C Fsus4 F   G
         Oh Yeah...

Chorus:
                F
I'm in a world so wide,
                   C
It makes me feel small sometimes,
           Am             G
I miss the big blue skies,
          F
The Oklahoma kind,
       Am   G     F
But I ain't in Checotah,
      Am   G     F
No I ain't in Checotah,
              Am          G   F
Oh, there's nothing like Oklahoma.

       C
Where 69 meets 40,

There's a single stoplight town