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Sweetgrass Moon  
James Keelaghan
Album: A Recent Future (1995)                                 
Capo 2
Intro: Em022000   D/F#200232   C/G330210  (repeat several times)
Verse 1:
GChild of an iDmmigrant cEmhild
Came to wBmork the lEmand
D/F#But the land worked tC/Ghem instead 
While high oDverhead a...
Chorus:
EmSweetgD/F#rass mC/Goon (x4)
Verse 2:
Stand at night on the palm of the plains
See the horizon curve
Hear the song of the meadowlark
Across the gathering dark of...
Chorus:
Sweetgrass moon (x4)
Bridge:
GNo one will ever know, D/F#No one can ever see
AmThe lines of force that bind me, C/Gupon this grassy sea
GNo one can ever know, D/F#No one can ever tell
AmThe land that pulls you down, C/Ginto that deep dark well
Piano solo
Verse 3:
This land my father adopted 
So much a part of me
But I cant separate it 
At night I long to see that...
Chorus:
Sweetgrass moon (x4)
Swee-eetgrass moon (x2)
repeat  Em   D/F#   C/Gseveral times

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Sweetgrass Moon

by James Keelaghan

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 2 (as written in this song)

Chords in this song · guitar

D/F#

C/G

Sweetgrass Moon

James Keelaghan

Album: A Recent Future (1995)

Capo 2

Em D/F# C/G

Intro: 022000 200232 330210 (repeat several times)

Verse 1:

G D Em

Child of an immigrant child

Bm Em

Came to work the land

D/F# C/G

But the land worked them instead

While high overhead a...

Chorus:

Em D/F# C/G

Sweetgrass moon (x4)

Verse 2:

Stand at night on the palm of the plains

See the horizon curve

Hear the song of the meadowlark

Across the gathering dark of...

Chorus:

Sweetgrass moon (x4)

Bridge:

G D/F#

No one will ever know, No one can ever see

Am C/G

The lines of force that bind me, upon this grassy sea

G D/F#

No one can ever know, No one can ever tell

Am C/G

The land that pulls you down, into that deep dark well

Piano solo

Verse 3:

This land my father adopted

So much a part of me

But I cant separate it

At night I long to see that...

Chorus:

Sweetgrass moon (x4)

Swee-eetgrass moon (x2)

Em D/F# C/G

repeat several times

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