Aug262023

Zach Bryan – Oklahoma Son Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsA E B C#m

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[Intro]
A E B C#m
C#m B E A
A E B C#m
C#m B E A

[Verse 1]
           A       E   B C#m
When I get back to Oklahoma
          C#m
I’ll be a little better
 B          E        A
 off than I am right now
        A       E
And you talk so strong
          B           C#m
but you can’t stand straight
          C#m        B
How’d you fall for a man
      E        A
 I’ve grown to hate
          A         E
And I can drive you by
         B          C#m
 where I learned to curse
             C#m
He’s got his creased
       B            E
dress whites in an all
        A
black hearse
          A          E
Why’s the green more green
        B       C#m
in the east of Eden
C#m      B        E
Swing on by cuz I know
           A
 you ain’t eaten
        A
Did the city beat your
 E            B         C#m
 ass like the trash you are
        C#m         B
There’s still smoke smell
         E        A
 in your old fast car

[Chorus]
          A    E
You can’t hide where
        B
 you’re from
                  C#m
With nightcrawler blood
         B       A
on your casting thumb
        A
You can fight and fiend
      E         B
 and sell your guns
           C#m
But you’ll always be
         B     A
 the Oklahoman son
       C#m
You’ll always be the
     B     A
Oklahoman son

[Interlude]
A E B C#m
C#m B E A

[Verse 2]
           A       E   B C#m
When I get back to Oklahoma
          C#m
I’ll be a little better
 B          E        A
 off than I am right now
        A         E
I can’t buy her a house
        B       C#m
 like I swore I would
     C#m     B
When I was a naïve and
 E     A
 eager child
    a           E
And money can’t buy
    B         C#m
 no friend of mine
    C#m         B
And money can’t buy
    E       A
 me back no time

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[Chorus]
          A    E
You can’t hide where
        B
you’re from
                  C#m
With nightcrawler blood
         B       A
on your casting thumb
        A
You can fight and fiend
     E         B
 and sell your guns
           C#m
But you’ll always be
         B     A
the Oklahoman son
       C#m
You’ll always be the
     B     A
 Oklahoman son

[Interlude]
A E B C#m
C#m B E A

[Chorus]
          A    E
You can’t hide where
        B
 you’re from
                  C#m
With nightcrawler blood on
      B       A
your casting thumb
        A
You can fight and fiend
     E         B
and sell your guns
           C#m
But you’ll always be
         B     A
 the Oklahoman son
       C#m
You’ll always be the
      B     A
 Oklahoman son

How to play Oklahoma Son: key, chords and progression

These are Oklahoma Son chords by Zach Bryan on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Oklahoma Son by Zach Bryan is in the key of E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯). The song uses 4 chords: A, E, B and C#m.

Most of the song cycles through A – E – B – C#m (IV – I – V – vi in E major), a rotation of the four-chord pop progression that starts on the IV chord. In solfa, that is fah – doh – soh – lah. Get these 4 changes smooth and the rest comes quickly.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes G, D, A, Bm (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.