Aboriginal Day chords by
Geoff Oelsner
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Key: G major

Verse 1
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
They don't call us Indians anymore
Bm Bm 
 
Em Em 
 
But the names from the old law
C C 
 
G G 
 
They gave us treaties out in the west
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
And decided that land was the best
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
They took us from our families
Bm Bm 
 
Em Em 
 
C C 
 
And they tried to make us wise
It took years for them to see
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
That this just wasn't right
G G 
 
A A 
 
Now we have a truth to wish for,
Bm Bm 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
to  try to sort things out.
C C 
 
G G 
 
It's the first time the natives
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
have had that kind of plow.
G G 
 
A A 
 
Now they call us First Ca nadians,
Bm Bm 
 
Em Em 
 
First People, First Nation.
C C 
 
And they try to help us
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
establish all our old relations
A A 
 
We were brown and we were savage
Asus4 Asus4 
 
A A 
 
Bm Bm 
 
An       d   we didn't
Em Em 
 
believe in the crumbs
C C 
 
G G 
 
But now the Canadian people can see
B B 
 
how much they've lost.
G G 
 
A A 
 
Asus4 Asus4 
 
Now they call us first Canadians,
Bm Bm 
 
Em Em 
 
first people, first nations,
G G 
 
Asus4 Asus4 
 
A A 
 
C C 
 
hey, hey, hey.
D D 
 
It's Aboriginal Day
G G 
 
C C 
 
D D 
 

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