Girl From Saskatoon Chords

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Girl From Saskatoon by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, E, B7 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Verse 

A                                E          A 
I left a little town, a little south of Hudson Bay 
                                     B7              E 
I couldn't find a thing, to make a rounder want to stay 
    A                                                     A 
I fought the wind across the barren waste in the crystal dunes 
                         E             A         
Going for to marry the girl from Saskatoon 

Verse 
                              E                  A 
I'm glad, I realized that no one could take her place 
                                       B7              E 
My heart was beating for her like the winter beat my face 
       A                               D               A 
But knowing that I'd see her made my spirit bright as June 
                                      E            A 
I'm freezing but I'm burning for the girl in Saskatoon 

Verse 
                                   E            A 
South and West and following the cold December sun 
                                        B7              E 
I bedded down in the Carragana when my daily trek was done 
     A                              D                    A 
Then up and pressing onward by the light of the morning moon 
                             E            A 
A prodigal returning to the girl in Saskatoon 

Verse 
                                 E                   A 
Then I found the trail that had packed beneath the snow 
                                  B7             E 
I made the final miles where the prairie lilies grow 
       A                           D              A 
The steeple on a church glistened by the prairie moon 
                                      E            A 
I'm freezing but I'm burning for the girl in Saskatoon 

Verse 
                                     E               A 
But my journey was forgotten when I held her in my arms 
                                 B7               E 
My wanderlust was stifled by possession of her charms 
     A                                   D                  A 
And kneeling neath the steeple where we couldn't wait till June 
                                 E           A 
I found eternal spring with the girl in Saskatoon 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante