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Version 1
            [Intro]
| D | D | G | G |
[Verse 1]
     G                                 C                A
Many years have come and gone, since I wandered from my home
         D                          G
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born
                                       C             A
Many a page of life has turned, many a lesson I have learned
      D                                  G
And I feel that in those hills I still belong
[Chorus]
                                      C
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, ridin' a pony on the reservation
       D                          G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
                                        C
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, a cowboy's life is my occupation
       D                    G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
[Verse 2]
                         C          A7
As I sit here today many miles I am away
         D                                G
From the place I rode my pony through the draw
                                            C               A
Where the oak and blackjack trees, kiss the playful prairie breeze
       D                          G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
[Chorus]
                                      C
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, ridin' a pony on the reservation
       D                          G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
                                        C
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, a cowboy's life is my occupation
       D                    G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
[Interlude]
| G  | G  | C | C |
| D7 | D7 | G | G |
| G  | G  | C | C |
| D  | D  | G | G |
[Verse 3]
     G                        C                     A7
As I turn life a page, to the land of the great old sage
       D                          G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
                                            C                 A7
While the black oil rolls and flows and the snow white cotton grows
       D                          G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
[Chorus]
                                      C
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, ridin' a pony on the reservation
       D                          G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
                                        C
Way down yonder in the Indian nation, a cowboy's life is my occupation
       D                          G
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born 
        
                