Artist: Gillian Welch
Song: Way up Saginaw Way
Transcribed by: Brett Vogel

Capo: 3rd Fret

Intro:  (walk up)   (continued throughout the whole song)

            
Come my love a

              
nd we will wal

              
k hand in hand

 
 together we’l

l talk
             
Why not go out

            
 and play way 

            
up Saginaw Way
            
No my dear I s

              
aid before a p

            
atient man ‘ed

 suit me more
             
I’ll wait anot

            
her year, till

              
 my mind is cl


ear

          
But what about

 this gold ban

d, shinning fo

r your pretty 

white hand
             
Lovin’ words I

              
 mean to say, 

            
way up Saginaw

 
 Way

No I believe i

t would be sin

 to wed withou

t my mother an

d kin’
             
And I will not

              
 have it said,

            
 I was hastin’

      
 you when

(solo)


Now there’s no

 cost to worry

 dear, your ki

n’ will come a

s soon as they

 hear
             
If the church 

              
bells ring tod

            
ay, way up Sag

     
inaw Way

So he took his

 love and they

 did walk, han

d in hand toge

ther they talk
             
Under skies bo

              
th dead and gr

            
ay, way up Sag

     
inaw Way