Key: Bb major
Intro 1
C
Bb
F
C
Bb
F
C
Verse 1
C
Oh, your
golden lights of America,
Bb
F
Joseph sought your prairies
C
and your buffalo.
And the humming of the rails
Bb
down through Kansas,
F
They brought Joseph in from
C
Baltimore.
Gm
The Cavalry, the Indians,
F
C
and an old dan were his only friends.
Bb
Then the old dan died and
the Indians' plight
F
Made the Cavalry young Joe's
C
enemy.
Interlude 1
Bb
F
C
Bb
F
C
Verse 2
C
Oh, the
outlaws spilled the blood across the
Bb
F
C
Kansas plains back in the '70s.
Bb
Joseph took a badge for America
F
C
To defend you from your fantasies.
Gm
Joseph wore that badge
F
across the Kansas
C
Prairies to save the railroads.
Gm
But the heroes that we made,
well, they were
F
C
Ruthless soldiers who'd kill for gold.
Interlude 2
Bb
F
C
Bb
F
C
F
Eb
Dm
C
Verse 3
C
With a broken heart for the frontier plains,
Bb
F
Joseph sat a- rocking in his
C
front- porch swing.
That old tin badge is tarnished now,
Bb
F
You know it was just
C
a young man's dream.
Dm
Gm
And old man's tales are hard
to reach when you
F
C
Don't believe in your American Dream.
Gm
The Indians,
Bb
F
the buffalo and old Joe Mason,
C
They died from memory.
Interlude 3
Bb
F
C
Bb
F
C
Verse 4
C
Oh, your golden lights of America,
Bb
F
Joseph sought your prairies
C
and your buffalo.
And the humming of the
rails down through
Bb
F
Kansas, they brought Joseph
C
in from Baltimore.
Gm
Bb
Gm
The Cavalry, the Indians,
F
and an old dan...
C
Forsaken old man.
Interlude 4
C
Bb
F
C
Gm
C
Bb
F
C
Verse 5
C
Oh, your golden lights of Amer
Bb
F
C
ica.
Outro 1
C
Bb
F
C
Bb
Gm
F
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