Big Foot chords by Marty Stuart

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Intro 1

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Bigfoot was an Indian chief
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of the Mini -Kanjoo Band,
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a band of  Mini -Kanjoo Sioux
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from South Dakota land.
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Bigfoot said to Custer,
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stay away from that crazy horse
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But Custer crossed into Sioux land
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and he never came back across
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Then Bigfoot led his people
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to a place called Wounded Knee
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And they found themselves surrounded
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by the Seventh Cavalry
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Bigfoot, Bigfoot,
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rise up from your bed
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Many Kanchu ba bies cry
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for their mothers lying dead
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Bigfoot was down with a fever
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when he reached Wounded Knee
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And   his people all were prisoners
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of the Seventh Cavalry
Two hundred women and children
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and  another hundred men
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Raised up  a white flag of peace,
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but peace did not begin
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An accidental gunshot
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and Bigfoot was first to die
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And over the noise of the rifles,
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you could hear them babies cry
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Bigfoot, Bigfoot,
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it's good that you can't see
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Revenge is being wrought
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by Custer's 7th Cavalry
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Smoke
hung over the canyon
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on that cold December day
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All was death and dying
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around where Bigfoot lay
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But farther up  the canyon,
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some had tried to run and hide
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But death showed no favorites,
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women, men, and children died
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One side called it a massacre,
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the other a victory
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But the white flag is still waving
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today at Wounded Knee
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Big foot, Bigfoot, your mini -Kanju band
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Is mourned and remembered
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here in South Dakota land
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Bigfoot, Bigfoot, your mini -Kanju band
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Is mourned and remembered
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here in South Dakota land
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Woo!
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