Nottingham Roughneck

Nottingham Roughneck (1943)

D G

My folks they named me Homer - I come from down in Oklahoma

A D (A)

I’ve got an Oklahoma kind of drawl

D G

My trade is oil well drilling but you bet I was willing

A D

To listen up and heed my country’s call

I hail from good ol’ Ardmore – but I know we got a hard war

That’s why I’m over here in Southwell town

In my western apparel, I’m pumping up the oil barrels

Every day we’re going further down

(BRIDGE 1)

A D

That’s why we’re here and seeking, that British oil under Eakring

A D

Were down to 7000 feet and more

A D

And the folks that live in Kelham, if you see ‘em just tell ‘em

E A

We’re gonna’ help beat Hitler in this war

I’ve seen that movie Robin Hood, I never thought that I would

be sitting underneath the Greenwood tree

We’re 44 (not so) merry men, wishing we were home again

Drilling oil so far across the sea

I’d like to hear Bob Wills ‘Hubbin' it‘, sitting in an English pub and its cold here in the middle of June

I like to teach those girls a new step twirling to the western two step

Dancing underneath an Okie moon

(BRIDGE 2)

Though he never drove a Sherman, we lost our old pal Herman

From the rig he fell one dark and dreary day

(But) Herman was a warrior, and no one could be sorrier

Than the pals he left behind so far away

They thought I was Tex Ritter, with a taste for salt in English bitter

Or Roy Rogers or old Gene Autry too

Bur we’re Oklahoma Roughnecks

We like to say just what the heck

We know we’ve got one big tough job to do


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