Northern Girl by Cheryl Wheeler
Key: GG | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    



Intro: G   C
            G                      G       G/F#    Em     C
Why are the rain clouds coming and pouring down on me?
                  G                   G        G/F#  Em     C
And why can't the north wind turn and blow the other way?
                  G                  G     G/F#   Em     
And where has the sunshine gone? Oh, I can barely see
              Am      C            Am              G       C
This northern rain is falling, and home is calling me
         G               G     G/F#    Em     C
Sun in a southern sky is all I need to see
                G                G        G/F#       Em     C
Just watching a small bird fly, above the fields and me
          G                      G        G/F#      Em     
Walking a dusty road and there's nothing 'round the bend
           Am     C        Am          G    
Except for golden tones of going home again
Chorus:
      C     G  D
Going home______
      C     G  D     C
Going home______
 
          G              G       G/F#   Em     C
Muddy old river flowing 'neath a fallen tree
              G              G        G/F#    Em     C
And sunflower garden growing twice as tall as me
           G               G         G/F#      Em   
Sister and father hear me, what I've learned today
           Am       C          Am             G     
I ain't no northern girl, I've been too long away
Chorus:
      C     G  D
Going home______
      C     G  D     C
Going home______
                    G              G        G/F#     Em      C
And on a starry old summer evening, humming warm and sweet
          G               G     G/F#     Em     C
I hit the road believing, I was bound to leave
                  G              G        G/F#   Em   
And it took a New England sky to teach me how to say
           Am       C          Am             G     
I ain't no northern girl, I've been too long away
           Am       C          Am             G   G/F# Em
I ain't no northern girl, I've been too long away
              Am       C             Am             G     D G
This ain't no northern song and I've been too long away