Runnin Back To Saskatoon

RUNNIN' BACK TO SASKATOON

from the album "Live at the 
Paramount" (1972)

tabbed by John Will 9/21/98
*

This is the live version from the 
ultimate hoser band (according to
Geoff Pevere and Greig Dymond in 
Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture
Odyssey). Tune down 1/2 step, as the
 key sounds a little closer to Ab,

A:577655
B:799877
G:355433
D:x57775
E:x79997
F:x81010108
G(II):x1012121210
D7:x57575
B7:x24242 or 797877


 Main riff (guitar 1)(the notes in 
brackets are not played every time)
    (A)  (G)  (D)  (C)       (D)
 (C)  (A)
E||-(9)--(7)--------------|---------------------|------------------|
B||--10---8----7----5-----|---7---5---(5)-------|------------------|
G||--9----7----7----5-----|---7---5----6--------|------------------|
D||-----------(7)--(5)----|--(7)-(5)---7--------|------------------|
A||-----------------------|---------------------|------------------|
E||-----------------------|---------------------|------------------|

   (guitar 2)slight distortion
E||----------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
B||----------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
G||--2----0--------------|---------------------|---------------------|
D||------------0---------|--0------------------|---------------------|
A||-----------------3----|-------3----0--------|------------0--------|
E||----------------------|---------------------|--0----3-------------|

Fill 1: (play on 2nd and 4th line of
 each verse,once with lyrics,once
without)
E||------------------------|
B||------7--5--7--5b-------|
G||------7--5--7--5b-------|
D||--7-7-------------------|
Continúa después del anuncio
A||------------------------|
E||------------------------|

Spoken intro:(over main riff)
There's a province up in Canada 
that's right next door to 
ours...it's
called Saskatchewan. And in that 
province there's a small town where
nothing much ever happens called 
Saskatoon. This is a tune about that
town...it's called Runnin' Back to 
Saskatoon

(harmonica solo with main riff)

I been hangin' 'round gas stations
I been learnin' 'bout tires
I been talkin' to grease monkeys
I been workin' on cars

chorus:
B
Moose Jaw, Southview, Moosomin too
G               D    A
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
B
G            D       A
Singin' of a prairie tune
G            D       A
Singin' of a prairie tune

I been hangin' 'round libraries
I been learnin' about books
I been talkin' to playwriters
I been workin' on words
Phrases

(chorus)
Saskatchewan!
I been hangin' 'round hospitals
I been learnin' 'bout dyin'
I been takin' to heart doctors
I been workin' on disease

(chorus)
Prairie!
refrain:
E (over some nonsense patter I can't
 decipher)
D7                 B7
This spirit is homegrown
                D7   B7
Don't come from Hong Kong
               D7  B7
This spirit is homegrown
                D7   B7
Don't come from Hong Kong


Solo(reasonably accurate, I think)
      D                         D7
                      A
E||------------------------||------------------------||------5-------------|
B||---7----7----7----7-----||---7----7----7----7-----||--5h8---8-----------|
G||*--7----7----7----7----*||*--5----5----5----5----*||----------7p5-------|
D||*--7----7----7----7----*||*--7----7----7----7----*||--------------7--7--|
A||------------------------||------------------------||--------------------|
E||------------------------||------------------------||--------------------|
------------5h8--10--8--10--8--10-
-------5h8------------------------
--5h7-----------------------------
----------------------------------
----------------------------------
----------------------------------

-|---|---10b--10b&r--8--8--10---|--
-|---|--------------------------|--
-|---|--------------------------|--
-|---|--------------------------|--
-|---|--------------------------|--
-|---|--------------------------|--

-|8-------| 
-|--------| 
-|--------| 
-|--------| 
-|--------| 
-|--------| 

     E                         F


   G(II)                         
--------------------|------------
----10p---8---------|------------
---------------9----|--7----5----
--------------------|------------
--------------------|------------
--------------------|------------
  A
-|----------| 
-|----------| 
-|----------| 
-|7---------| 
-|----------| 
-|----------| 

------------------------|---------
------------------------|-------7-
----7----5----7----5b---|--7------
--7---------------------|---------
------------------------|---------
------------------------|---------

-|-------------|-------------------|
-|---5----7----|--5b---------------|
-|-------------|-------------------|
-|-------------|-------------------|
-|-------------|-------------------|
-|-------------|-------------------|

(main riff x2)
I been hangin' 'round grain 
elevators
I been learnin' 'bout food
I been talkin' to soil farmers
I been workin' on land

(chorus)

I been hangin' 'round camera stores
I been learnin' 'bout sights
I been talkin' to filmmakers
I been workin' on eyes

(chorus)
Sing!
(refrain)

*I suppose Saskatoon is "small" to a
 Winnipegger, although it would
have been over 130,000 even when 
Burton rapped this, albeit to an
American audience;so we'll forgive 
him.
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