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From: ummikit0@cc.UManitoba.CA (jenny("steve")mikita)
Subject: k/keelaghan_james/gladys_ridge.crd
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 16:27:53 GMT

"Gladys Ridge"
James Keelaghan
From: "Small Rebellions" (1989)
Published by Tranquilla Music (1988)
Transcribed: Jen Mikita

(Capo 3rd fret - this puts it in F major without having to play all
those pesky bar chords)

       D>From (xx0232@1)Gladys Ridge I made my way
    G (320003@1)              AAcross (x02220@1)the valleys, hills and plains
    DAcross (xx0232@1)the fields all coloured dun
G (320003@1)               AOnce (x02220@1)more to Saskatchewan
Bm (x24432@1)         A (x02220@1)             GTime (320003@1)to get back to mother land
Bm (x24432@1)           A (x02220@1)              G (320003@1) ABetter (x02220@1)a good run than a bad stand

Chorus:
D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)           AOh, (x02220@1)I may never leave again,
D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)            AOh, (x02220@1)I may never leave again,
D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)          AOh, (x02220@1)I may never leave again,
D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)           AOh, (x02220@1)I may never leave again.

Northward now I turn my gaze
A ribbon coloured asphalt gray
My mind returned to different days
Distances I?d travelled
The miles like an hourglass?s sand
Better a good run than a bad stand

(Chorus)

Underneath the star-filled skies
We run our course and live our lives
Lay down roots in a spinning ball
Live one life as if that?s all
Things might not work out as we had planned
Better a good run than a bad stand

(Chorus)

Gladys Ridge she rises gray
As homeward now I make my way
An icon clothed in prairie scrub
The world a wheel and I its hub
A dormant fire waiting to be fanned
Better a good run than a bad stand

(Chorus)