Guess Who Runnin Back To Saskatoon guitar tab

Runnin Back To Saskatoon by Guess Who

RUNNIN' BACK TO SASKATOON
The Guess Who

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

tabbed by John Will 9/21/98
[email protected]

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,
at least on my old vinyl version from Best of The Guess Who Volume II.

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-------------------|
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
Red Deer, Terrace and-a Medicine Hat
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||------------------------||------------------------||--------------------|
                                         E                         F
------------5h8--10--8--10--8--10----|---10b--10b&r--8--8--10---|--8-------|
-------5h8---------------------------|--------------------------|----------|
--5h7--------------------------------|--------------------------|----------|
-------------------------------------|--------------------------|----------|
-------------------------------------|--------------------------|----------|
-------------------------------------|--------------------------|----------|
   G(II)                         A
--------------------|----------------------|
----10p---8---------|----------------------|
---------------9----|--7----5--------------|
--------------------|------------7---------|
--------------------|----------------------|
--------------------|----------------------|

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

(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.
===================================================================