Biography:
James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter born in Calgary, Alberta, now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Many of his songs, such as "Kiri's Piano", about the interment of Japanese Canadians, "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian history. Known for his lilting baritone voice, his driving rhythm guitar, and a keen sense of scene and narrative, Keelaghan’s music bridges traditional folk music with Canadiana.
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Other songs:
- Boom Gone Bust
- Cold Missouri Waters
- Country Faire
- Dance As You Go
- Fires Of Calais
- Get To You
- Gladys Ridge
- Glory Bound
- Harvest Train
- Henrys Downfall
- Hillcrest Mine
- Hold Your Ground
- Hope Princeton Road
- House Of Cards
- I Would I Were
- Jack Haggerty
- Kiris Piano
- Lazarus
- Leave Town
- Lost
- Mcconnvilles
- Mirabeau Bridge
- Misty Mountain
- My Blood
- My Old Man
- My Skies
- Never Gonna Stop This Train
- Next To You
- Nothing
- Number 37
- Orion
- Rebeccas Lament
- Red River Rising
- Red
- Refugee
- Ring
- Safe Home
- Sea For The Shore
- Sinatra And I
- Since You Asked
- Sing My Heart Home
- Small Rebellion
- Snap The Line Tight
- Somewhere Ahead
- Stonecutter
- Sweet Lorraine
- Sweet Thames Flow Softly
- Sweetgrass Moon
- The Boston Burglar
- The Flower Of Magherally
- The Kiss Saskatoon
- The Ones Who Made Home
- Tomorrow Is Another Day
- Turn Of The Wheel
- Whats For You
- Who Dies
- You Know Me
- Your Secret
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Sweetgrass Moon
James Keelaghan
Album: A Recent Future (1995)
Capo 2
Intro:Em 022000 D/F# 200232 C/G 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
D
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)
repeat Em D/F# C/G several times
James Keelaghan
Album: A Recent Future (1995)
Capo 2
Intro:Em 022000 D/F# 200232 C/G 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
D
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)
repeat Em D/F# C/G several times
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