Wrangell Mountain Song
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 01:38:14, -0500
From: MR KEN L REYNOLDS
To: acoustic@olga.net, guitar@olga.net
Subject: wrangell_mountain_song_by_john_denver
album: Autograph
song: Wrangell Mountain Song
artist: John Denver
transcribed: Ken Reynolds
Enjoy the following selection
Wrangell Mountain Song
John Denver
C D7 G G/fEm Em/C D7 G
- - - - - - - -
G D G
Sunday and it's rainin' in Alas ka,
C D7 G
Seven days, I haven't seen the sun
C D G G/f#
Flyin' bush, flyin' low along the shoreline
EEm/d D7 G
Doin' everything I can to make it home
C G
I can't wait to see the Wrangell Moun tains
C D7 G
I can't wait to do what I will do
C D7 G G/f#
Honey, did I nev er say how time goes by so
Em Em/d C C/b D7
slowly when I can't wait to get back home
G
to you
G D G
Three years from the war and settled down now,
C D7 G
I did my time served my country well
C D7 G G/f#
In the free dom I defend ed I fly be neath
Em Em/d C D7
The North Star and I just don't know a better way
G
to feel
C G
I can't wait to see the Wrangell Moun tains
C D7 G
I can't wait to do what I will do
C D7 G G/f#
Honey, did I nev er say how time goes by so
Em Em/d C C/b D7
slowly when I can't wait to get back home
G
to you
Em C G
It's a quiet life out here among the mountains
Em A7 D7
In a cabin that was built with these two hands
G D G
Mc Carthy lies asleep beside the glacier
C D7 G
It's colder now, winters in the air
C D7 G G/f#
If you think their wild it's be cause they can't
be
Em Em/d C D7
bro ken it's a strong and gentle people livin'
G
there
C G
I can't wait to see the Wrangell Moun tains
C D7 G
I can't wait to do what I will do
C D7 G G/f#
Honey, did I nev er say how time goes by so
Em Em/d C C/b D7
slowly when I can't wait to get back home
to
G G C D7G C D7 G
you - - - - - -
C D7 G G/f#
Honey did I nev er say how times goes by so
Em Em/d C C/b D7
slowly When I can't wait to get back
D7 G D
home to you - - [G