The Ballad Of Ira Hayes chords by
Hazel Dickens

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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A

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Call

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him drunken ira hayes

He won't answer any more

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G

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Not the whiskey drinkin'

indian

Not the marine who went to war

Verse 2

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Gather 'round me people There's

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a story I would tell

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About a brave young indian

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You should remember well

From the land of the pima indians

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A proud and noble band

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Who farmed the phoenix valley

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In arizona land

Verse 3

Down their ditches for a thousand years

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The waters grew ira's people's crops

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Till the white man stole

their water rights

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And their sparklin' water stopped

Now ira's folks grew hungry

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And their land grew crops of weeds

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When war came ira volunteered

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And for got the white man's greed

Verse 4

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Call him drunken ira hayes He

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won't answer any more

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Not the whiskey drinkin' indian

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Not the mar ine who went to

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war

Interlude 1

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A

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Well,

Verse 5

they battle up

iwo jima hill

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Two hundred and fifty men

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But only twenty seven lived

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To walk back down again

When the fight was over

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And old glory raised

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Among the men who held it high

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Was in dian ira hayes

Verse 6

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Call him drunken ira hayes

He won't answer any more

Not the whiskey drinkin' indian

Not the marine who went to war

Verse 7

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Ira hayes returned a hero

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Celebrated through the land

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He was wined and

speeched and honored

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Every body shook his hand;

But he was just a pima indian

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No water, no home, no chance

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At home nobody cared what ira had done

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And when do the indians dance?

Verse 8

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Call him drunken ira hayes

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He won't answer any more;

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Not the whiskey drinkin' indian

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Not the marine who went to

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war

Interlude 2

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A

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D

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Verse 9

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Then ira started drinkin' hard

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Jail was often his home

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They let him raise the

flag and lower it

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D

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As you would throw a dog a bone

He died drunk early one morning

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Alone in the land he'd fought to save

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Two inches of water in a lonely ditch

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Was the grave for ira hayes

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A

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Verse 10

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Call him drunken ira hayes

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He won't answer any more

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Not the whiskey drinkin' indian

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D

D

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Not the mar ine who went to war

Verse 11

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Yeah! call him drunken ira hayes

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But his land is just as dry

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And the ghost is lying thirsty

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In the ditch where ira died

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