Key: Bb major
Verse 1
F#
D
C#
F#
A young Indian
B
F#
C#
mother with anxious eyes,
F#
B
F#
Sat by a cradle neath sullen skies.
B
F#
Her warrior hunter had not returned,
C#
F#
B
F#
But bravely to her babe she turned.
F#
B
my little Pa poose,
F#
D#m
G#m
C#
The bright apple fall s from the bough.
B
D
The trembling leaf knows
F#
B
the north wind's a thief,
F#
B
F#
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
B
F#
But you will sleep somehow.
F#
C#
the empty rack,
B
F#
and corn by the sack.
With fear in her heart
B
F#
C#
she turned to the child,
F#
B
And as wolves closed in she
B
F#
High flies the goose, my little papoose,
B
F#
D#m
The bright apple falls
G#m
C#
from the bough.
B
D
F#
The trembling leaf knows
F#
B
F#
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
B
F#
But you will sleep somehow.
F#
C#
from her tattered shawl
F#
B
Watched the brown -eyed child
The wolves would make
B
F#
C#
certain he didn't know
B
F#
C#
F#
they would lie neath the snow
B
F#
B
High flies the goose, my little Papoose
F#
D#m
G#m
The bright apple fall s from the bough
C#
B
D
The trembling leaf knows
F#
B
the north wind's a thief,
F#
B
F#
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
B
F#
But you will sleep somehow.
B
F#
C#
Then faint on the wind a hi -yi -o h,
F#
B
The clip -clop of Burroughs,
B
F#
Her warrior hunter at last had returned
C#
F#
B
There was food, there were furs,
B
F#
B
High flies the goose, my little papoose
F#
D#m
G#m
C#
The bright apple falls from the bough
B
D
The trembling leaf knows
F#
B
the north winds a -thieve
F#
B
F#
But you will sleep somehow, somehow
C#
F#
But you will sleep somehow
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