Rheostatics - Saskatchewan Chords

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[G] The moon hung high in the [Em] canopy of sky
        [C] Home Caroline Home  [G] 
[G] The coastline neared and the [Em] deckhands cheered
        [C] Home Caroline Home  [G] 
[G] The mast stood tall like the [Em] best of us all
[C] Home Caroline Home  [G] 
[G] I thought of the clear light on your [Em] hands and on the wood
        [C] In a church? in Saskatchewan
 
[G] [A]
 
[G] On the shore appeared men like a [Em] welcoming parade
        [C]Banners, flags, and arsenal  [G]
[G] But they were not what they [Em] appeared to be as their white flags fell
        [C] Banners, flags, and arsenal  [G]
[G] I looked up at the moon? and at the [Em] water down below
        [C] Home Caroline Home  [G]
[G] I tried to remember things? that the [Em] pastor used to say
        [C] In a church? in Saskatchewan
 
[G] [A] [G] [A]
 
[Dm] Everyone raced onto the [C] deck [Am] [C]
[Dm] I tried to shoot but I just wretched [C] [Am] [C]
[Dm] We must wrestle back what we had sown [C] [Am] [C]
[Dm] We must wrestle back what we had left [C] [Am]
[G] I could not fire, and I [D] don't know [G] why
[C] Then I knew the truth  [G]
[G] I felt I got what [D] I de [G] served
[C] Then I knew the truth
[G] [Em] [C] [G]
[G] [Em] [C] [G]
 
[G] I lay on the deck as the [Em] cannon balls soared by overhead
        [C] Home Caroline Home  [G]
[G] The hull gave in water came [Em] rushing in across the deck
[C] Home Caroline Home  [G]
[G] I thought of the farm and the [Em] work to be done
        [C] Home Caroline Home  [G] 
[G] I thought of the clean light and the [Em] places that we'd hide
        [C] In a church in Saskatchewan
 
[G] [A] [G] [A]
 
[Dm] Everyone raced onto the [C] deck [Am] [C]
[Dm] I tried to shoot but I could not [C] [Am] [C]
[Dm] We must wrestle back what we had sown [C] [Am] [C]
[Dm] We must wrestle back what we had left [C] [Am]
[G] I could not fire, and I [D] don't know [G] why
[C] Then I knew the truth  [G]
[G] I felt I got what [D] I de [G] served
[C] Then I knew the truth
 
[G] [A] [G] [A]
[G] [A] [G] [A]
 
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