Key: C major
Intro 1
Bb
Verse 1
F
Hoof prints and foot prints
Bb
Eb
deep ruts the wagons made
Bb
F
Bb
F
The victor and the loser came by here
Verse 2
Bb
F
No head stones but these bones
Bb
Eb
bring Mascalero death moans
Bb
Eb
Bb
See the smooth black nug gets by
F
Bb
the thousands laying here
Verse 3
Bb
Eb
Petrified but justified are
F
Bb
these Apache tears
F
Dead grass dry roots
Bb
Eb
hunger crying in the night
Verse 4
Bb
F
Ghost of broken hearts
Bb
F
and laws are here
Bb
F
And who saw the young squaw
Bb
Eb
they judged by their whiskey law
Verse 5
Bb
F
Bb
Tortured 'til she died of pain and fear
Eb
Where the soldiers lay her back are
F
the black Apache tears
Bb
Verse 6
F
The young men the old men
Bb
the guilty and the innocent
Eb
Bb
F
Bled red blood and chilled
alike with fears
Bb
Verse 7
F
Bb
F
The red men the white men
Bb
Eb
no fight ever took this land
Bb
Eb
So don't raise the dust when
you pass here
Bb
Verse 8
They're sleeping and in my
Eb
F
keeping are these Apache tears
Outro 1
F
Bb
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