Ballad Of Chief Joseph chords by Deniz tek
Verse 1
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In his dying words he
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spoke to the young man
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Stay on this land as long as you can
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Keep watching over our
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forefathers' graves
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And the bones of your mother and dad
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General Howard gave
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them 30 days
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to pack up
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and get on the reservation.
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They stood to fight
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for their natural right
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to stay on their ancestral na tion.
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When did the great spirit cheat?
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Give one kind of man the authority
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To tell another kind where to go
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Or how to live or who to be
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When the army ran them off,
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they were 700 strong
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Fought a running battle
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like the Viet Cong
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Killed 34 soldiers at White Bird Canyon
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A thousand miles from Idaho,
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in winter I came along
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They had no blankets,
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they ran out of food
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Children were freezing to death,
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he knew
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They couldn't last, another sunrise
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He dropped his weapons in the snow
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with tears in his eyes
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Forty miles from Canada,
the Chief gave the command
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From where the sun now stands,
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I will fight no more,
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forever
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you
Ballad Of Chief Joseph
Deniz Tek
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