A Long Way From Montana Chords
by Red Steagall
A Long Way From Montana by Red Steagall is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Em, F, D7, G7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C Em F
A long way it is from Montana
C D7 G7
To west Texas whether by hoof or by rail
C Em F
A long way it is from Alzada
C G7 C
To innocence lost somewhere out on the trail
Em F
My heart is lonesome and longing
C D7 G7
My comrades are gone on the first morning train
C Em F
And my heart hears a boyhood hymn calling
C G7 C
From a church down the valley comes this old refrain
C F C
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling
Am D7 G7
Calling for you and for me
C F C
See on the portals He's waiting and watching
F C G7 C
Watching for you and for me
Em F
Too many autumns I've watched 'em
C D7 G7
Board trains with their plunder all headed for home
C Em F
And too many autumns I've stayed here
C G7 C
To snap out the new ones 'fore winter comes on
Em F
And I wonder who's waiting for them
C D7 G7
A sweetheart a lover a young wife with babe
C Em F
But I know who's waiting for me
C G7 C
A mother and father who's hair has turned to gray
G7 C Am
Come home come home
D7 G7
Wanderin' cowboy come home
C F C
Earnestly tenderly I hear them calling
Am F C G7 C
My son it's time to come home
Em F
I've lingered long in this country
C D7 G7
From high thunder basin to where rim lands start
C Em F
And I've lingered too long a sinner
C G7 C
It's time that I pack up and follow my heart
Em F
A long way it is from Alzada
C D7 G7
To a little sod house on the west Texas plains
C Em F
A long way it is from Montana
C G7 C
But I'm going home on the next southbound train
Em F C
A long way it is from Montana