Forty Miles To Saturday Night Chords

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Forty Miles To Saturday Night by Paul Kelly is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, Bm, Em and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
Text
16
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  			verse 1 

      D                   G             D       Bm          G      Em         
  Well I rubbed the dirt all down    And I washed away six ach-ing days   And my 

 D                   G            D       Bm           G         Em           
 shoes all slick and spit and my singlet fresh and my sideburns shaved  as I  

 A                G               A             G          A      D                    
 turn    from the mirror    and I open my first beer since yester-day 
  


verse 2 


     D                   G             D       Bm          G      Em         
Danny  brings the Bedford round a three ton girl with a flat top tray  

 D                   G               D       Bm           G         Em           
And she knows the way to town so we kiss goodbye to two weeks pay 


 A                      G               A             G     A      D              
Now the leaves are all shaking and the stars are all waking from the day 



                                   
 G                   D                   G                   D                   
 Big wheel turning   Turning all night   Big light burning   Burning so bright 

 G                      D                      G                A        D        
 Downright foolish  but that's all right  it's only 40 miles to Saturday night 



verse 3 


     D                   G             D       Bm          G      Em         
Theres a place on Maylin Street and a band down there called Gunga Din 

     D                   G             D       Bm     G      Em         
And Joanne from Miner's Creek, she said that she'd be back again 

 A                      G               A         G     A     D             
She lives out on the station and she works on my imagination 



 G                   D                   G                   D                   
 Big wheel turning   Turning all night   Big light burning   Burning so bright 

 G                      D                      G                A        D        
 Downright foolish  but that's all right  it's only 40 miles to Saturday night 

 G                   D                   G                   D                   
 Big wheel turning   Turning all night   Big light burning   Burning so bright 

 G                      D                      G                A        D        
 Downright foolish  but that's all right  it's only 40 miles to Saturday night 
    	

Chord diagrams

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