The Monkees – If I Ever Get To Saginaw Again (Guitar)

G                Bm      Em       C
If I ever get to Saginaw again,

                         G              D      G
A locale that's somewhat off the beaten track.

                      Bm        Em      C
Get to see the girl I never saw again

                         G
Who must know why I have never ventured back.

G
We we young,

       Bm     Em
And so alive

          G               C
And now I wonder if she'd cling to me,

               G              D
Become my very own as she did then,

                         G
If I ever get to Saginaw again.

G                Bm      Em     C
If I ever get to Saginaw again,

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It won't be in Spring with meadows turning green.

                      Bm           Em     C
It won't be to tangle with the law again.

                             G
And it won't be with someone only seventeen,

G
Who gave her love,

            Bm     Em
And made me hers.

             C
And when you find the one you're dreaming of

D
Not "when"

                             G
You may never get to Saginaw again.

G                Bm      Em    C
If I ever get to Saginaw again

                  G                D       G
I will get to see son who bears my name.

                 Bm                        C
And perhaps I'll quietly withdraw again

                      G
When I see the little man that he became.

G
And how I yearn

             Bm    Em
To watch him grow.

           C
A father's love is maybe all it takes

                                    D
To not repeat those sad mistakes of men

D
If I ever get to Saginaw again