Johnny Cash
Album: Personal File - Disc 1 (Legacy Recordings)
Track: Girl in Saskatoon
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Girl in Saskatoon Lyrics (Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash)
Spoken:
The late Johnny Horton was one of my best friends. And I remember, one night after a show, we played in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, we were driving that old car across the ... the snow, across the ice, the icy roads, going down to Regina, I believe. Driving along that night, without accompaniment, we wrote 'n' sang for the first time this song
Sung:
I left a little town, a little South of Hudson Bay
I couldn't find a thing to make a rounder want to stay
I fought the wind across the barren waste and the crystal dunes
Goin' for to marry the girl in Saskatoon
South and West and followin' the cold December sun
I bedded down in the caragana when my daily track was done
Then up and movin' onward by the light of the morning moon
I'm freezin' but I'm burnin' for the girl in Saskatoon
Then I found a trail that had packed beneath the snow
I made the final miles where the prairie lilies grow
I walked into a boarding-house and I got myself a room
Then I started asking about the girl in Saskatoon
Well, they told me that she'd waited but then she'd gone away
To look for me in a little town, a little South of Hudson Bay
My wanderlust was over, it went like the morning moon
Left me freezin' but burnin' for the girl in Saskatoon
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