{"id":1654,"date":"2023-03-14T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2023-03-14T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:49:40","slug":"saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/301-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/301-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/301-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/301-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/301-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/301-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Homestead Home<br>Photo by Marv Machura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song came to me as I was driving through the countryside of East Alberta around Vilna and Smoky Lake where I have deep family roots. As I saw the big empty fields, I thought about my parents&#8217; and grandparents&#8217; life on this land, and how it may have been to see it with big families living on each quarter section of land. Today, the remnants of those days (old homes, barns, granaries, etc.) that I knew as numerous when I was younger are almost all gone as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my song &#8220;Saskatchewan&#8221; on my Spotify Channel. Check it out if you have Spotify, otherwise you can find it on YouTube, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a great Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Saskatchewan-lyrics-and-Chords.pdf\">Lyrics and Chords<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Saskatchewan.pdf\">Commentary 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Saskatchewan\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6XNCsis17Ek4IHtKQdGBcI?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/302-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/302-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/302-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/302-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/302-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/302-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dreams of Plenty (Marv Machura)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saskatchewan\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8PdherKbnr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saskatchewan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a golden land called Saskatchewan;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held before our fathers like a promised land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1888 is not that long ago; they started the life that\u2019s left me here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every quarter section had a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They didn\u2019t come here to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They thanked God for Saskatchewan; they thanked God they were here,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m driving through miles and miles of empty fields, broken-down old homes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lonely tractor\u2019s out there on a thousand acres of this golden land called Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O, Saskatchewan\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel a warm wind blow; I feel her warm wind blow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish the old ways weren\u2019t so far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we were content with so much less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019m pushing through, I got to be on my way\u2026oh, oh, Saskatchewan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m driving through miles and miles of empty fields and broken-down old homes;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lonely tractor\u2019s out there on a thousand acres of this blessed land called Saskatchewan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a blessed land called Saskatchewan;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel a warm wind blow; I feel her warm wind blow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2003 Marv Machura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Friends, This song came to me as I was driving through the countryside of East Alberta around Vilna and Smoky Lake where I have deep family roots. As I saw the big empty fields, I thought about my parents&#8217; and grandparents&#8217; life on this land, and how it may have been to see it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saskatchewan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}