The Ballad Of Ira Hayes chords by
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Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
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B
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F#
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Call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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he won't answer anymore.
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Not the whiskey drinking Indian,
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F#
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nor the Marine that went to war.
Come gather round, you people,
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and a story I will tell
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About a brave young Indian
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you may remember well
From the tribe of Pima Indians,
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a proud and peaceful band
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That farmed the Phoenix Valley
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in the Arizona land
Down their ditches for a thousand years
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the sparkling water rushed
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Till the white man stole their water rights,
and the running water hushed.
Now Ira's folks were hungry,
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their farm grew crops of weeds.
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Until war came, and he volunteered,
and forgot the white
man's greed.
Call him drunken Ira,
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hey, she won't answer anymore.
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Not the whiskey -drinkin' Indian
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F#
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B
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F#
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or the Marine that went to war
They battled up Iwo Jima Hill,
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250 men
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But only 27 lived to walk back down again
And when the fight was over
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and old glory had been raised
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Among the men
that held her high
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was the Indian Ir a Hayes.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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he won't answer anymore.
C#
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Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
B
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F#
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B
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or the Marine that went to war.
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Now Ira Hayes returned a hero,
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celebrated through the land.
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He was wined and speeched
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an d honored.
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Everybody shook his hand.
But he's just a Pima Indian,
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no water, no crops, no chance.
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Back home, nobody cared what Ira
had done.
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When do the Indians dance?
Now Ira started drinking hard.
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Jail often was his home.
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They used to let him
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raise the flag there
and lower it like he'd throw a dog a bone.
He died drunk early one morning,
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all alone in the land that he'd
fought to save.
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Six inches of water in a lonely ditch
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C#
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F#
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was the grave of Ira Hayes.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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he won't an swer anymore.
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Not the whiskey -drinkin' Indian
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F#
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or the Marine that went to war.
Sure, call him drunken Ira Hayes,
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but his land is still as dry
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and his ghost is lying thirsty
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B
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in the ditch where Ira died.

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