Ballad Of Ira Hayes chords by
Johnny Doe

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Key: A major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Ira Hayes,
Ira
C C 
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G G 
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Hayes, call him drunken
Ira
C C 
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Hayes, he won't answer anymore,
D D 
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not the whiskey drinking
Indian or the
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Marine that went to war.
Gather round me people,
C C 
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there's a story I will tell
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About a brave young
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Indian you should remember well
From the land of the
Pima
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Indians, a proud and noble band
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D D 
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Who found the
Phoenix
Valley and the
G G 
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Arizona land
Down their ditches for a thousand years,
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C C 
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the sparkling water rush
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C C 
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D D 
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Till the white man stole their water rights,
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and all the water hikes.
Call him drunk and irate,
C C 
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he won't answer anymore.
D D 
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Not the whiskey drinkin'
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Indian, or the marine that went to war.
They battled up
Iwo
Jima
C C 
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Hill, two hundred and fifty men.
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But only 27 lived to walk back down again
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C C 
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When the fightin' was all over and old
Gloria
had been raised
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Among  the men who held
her high was the
Indian
Ira
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Hayes
Now
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Ira returned a hero, celebrated through
the land
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He was whined and speeched
and honored and
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Everybody shook his hand, he was still a
Pima
Indian
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No land, no crops, no chance
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Back home,
nobody cared what he'd done
And said, when do the
G G 
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Indians dance?
So
C C 
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Ira started drinkin' hard, and
J .O. was off in his home
D D 
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And they'd let him raise
the flag and lower it
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Like you'd throw a dog a bone
He died early one morning,
C C 
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alone in the land
he fought to save.
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Two inches of water in a lonely
ditch was a grave for
Ira
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Hay.
Yeah, call him drunken
Ira
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Hay, but his land is still as dry,
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and his ghost is
laying thirsty in the ditch where
G G 
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Ira died.
Call him drunken
Ira
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Hay, he won't answer
D D 
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anymore, not the whiskey drinkin' and
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being all the marine that went to war.

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