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My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying easy guitar chords by 
Buffy Sainte-marie
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Verse 1
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Now that your big eyes
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are fi nally opened
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Now that you're wondering,
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How must they feel?
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Meaning them that you've chased
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cross America's movie screens
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Now that you're wondering,
How can it be real?
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That the ones you've called colorful,
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noble and proud
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In your school pro paganda
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They starve in their splendor
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You've asked for our comment,
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I simply will render
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My country 'tis of thy
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people you're dy ing
Verse 2
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Now that the longhouse
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s breed superstition
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You force us to send our
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toddlers away
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To your schools where they're
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taught to despise their traditions
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Forbid them their languages
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Then further say that American
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history really began
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When Columbus set sail out
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of Europe and stress
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That the nation of leeches
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that's conquered this land
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Are the biggest and bravest and boldest,
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and best
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And yet where in your his
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tory books is the tale
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Of the genocide basic to
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this country's birth?
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Of the preachers who lied?
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How the Bill of Rights failed?
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How a nation of patriots re
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turned to their earth?
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And where will it tell of the Liberty Bell
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As it rang with a thud over
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Kinzua mud?
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And of brave Uncle Sam
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in Alaska this year?
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My country 'tis of thy
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people you're dying
Verse 3
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Hear how the bargain was
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made for the West
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With her shivering children in
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zero degrees
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Blankets for your land, so the treaties attest
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Oh well, blankets for land,
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is a bargain indeed
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And the blankets were those Uncle
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Sam had collected
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From smallpox diseased dying
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sol diers that day
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And the tribes were wiped out
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And the history books censored
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A hundred years of your statesmen
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have felt it's better this way
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Yet a few of the conquered
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have somehow survived
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Their blood runs the redder
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Though genes have been paled
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From the Grand Canyon's
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caverns
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To Craven's sad hills
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The wounded, the losers,
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the robbed sing their tale
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From Los Angeles County to
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upstate New York
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The white nation fattens
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while others grow lean
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Oh, the tricked and evicted
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they know what I mean
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My country 'tis of thy people
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you're dy ing
Verse 4
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The past it just crumbled,
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the future just threatens
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Our lifeblood shut up in
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your chemical tanks
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And now here you come,
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bill of sale in your hand
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And surprise in your eyes,
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that we're lacking in thanks
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For the blessings of civilization
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you've brought us
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The lessons you've taught us
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The ruin you've wrought us
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Oh, see what our trust in
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America's bought us?
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My country 'tis of thy
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people you're dy ing
Verse 5
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Now that the pride of the
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sires receives charity
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Now that we're harmless
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and safe behind laws
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Now that my life's to
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be known as your heritage
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Now that even the graves
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have been robbed
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Now that our own chosen
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way is a novelty
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Hands on our hearts
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We salute you your victory
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Choke on your blue,
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white and scarlet hypocrisy
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Pitying the blindness that
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you never see
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That the eagles of war whose
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wings lent you glory
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They were never no more
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than carrion crows
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Pushed the wrens from their nest
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Stole their eggs,
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changed their story
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The mockingbird sings it
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It's all that she knows
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"Oh, what can I do?",
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say a powerless few
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With a lump in your throat
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and a tear in your eye
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Can't you see that their
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poverty's profiting you?
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My country 'tis of thy
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people you're dying
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