The Ballad Of Ira Hayes

The Ballad Of Ira Hayes easy guitar chords by Kinky Friedman

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  • Verse 1
    Gather 
    round me 
    people 

    and a 
    story 
    I will tell 

    'Bout 
    a brave 
    young 
    Indian 
    lad, 

    you should 
    re
    member 
    well, 

    From a 
    tribe 
    of Pima 
    Indians, 

    a proud 
    and peaceful 
    band 

    Who farmed 
    the Phoenix 
    Valley 

    out 
    in 
    Arizona 
    land. 

    Verse 2

    Down their 
    ditches 
    for a thousand 

    years 
    the spark
    ling 
    water 
    rushed 

    Till the white 
    man 
    stole 
    the 
    water 
    rights 

    and the 
    running water 
    hushed. 

    Ira's 
    folks 
    was hungry, 

    their 
    fields 
    grew 
    thick with 
    weeds, 

    But 
    when war 
    came 
    Ira volunteered 

    and forgot 
    the white 
    man's 
    greed. 

    Verse 3

    Call 
    him 
    drunken 
    Ira 
    Hayes, 

    he won't 
    answer 
    any
    more, 

    Not that 
    whiskey 
    drinking 
    Indian 
    or 
    Marine 

    who went 
    to 
    war. 

    Verse 4

    Well, they battled 
    up 
    Iwo Jima Hill, 

    two hundred 
    and fifty 
    men 

    But only 
    twenty- 
    seven 
    lived 

    to 
    walk back 
    down 
    again. 

    And after 
    the fight 
    was 
    over 

    and Old 
    Glory 
    proudly 
    raised, 

    Among the 
    men 
    who held 
    her high 
    was 
    an Indian, 

    Ira 
    Hayes. 

    Verse 5

    Call 
    him 
    drunken 
    Ira 
    Hayes, 

    he won't 
    answer 
    anymore, 

    Not that 
    whiskey 
    drinking 
    Indian 

    or 
    Marine 
    who 
    went 
    to war. 

    Verse 6

    Well, Ira 
    Hayes 
    returned 
    a hero, 

    celebrated 
    throughout 
    the 
    land, 

    He was 
    wined 
    and 
    speeched and honored, 

    everybody 
    shook his 
    hand. 

    But he's 
    just 
    a Pima 
    Indian, 
    no food, 

    no 
    friend, 
    no chance, 

    And nobody 
    cared 
    what Ira 
    did 
    and 

    when do 
    the Indians 
    dance. 

    Verse 7

    Well, Ira 
    took 
    to drinking 
    hard, 

    jail 
    often 
    was his 
    home, 

    They 
    used to let 
    him raise 
    the flag 
    there 
    and lower 

    it 
    just like 
    you'd 
    throw a 
    dog 
    bone. 

    And Ira 
    died 
    drunk 
    early 
    one morning 
    all 
    alone 

    in the land 
    he'd 
    fought 
    to save. 

    Two inches 
    of water 
    in a 
    lonely 
    ditch 

    was the grave 
    for Ira 
    Hayes. 

    Verse 8

    Call 
    him 
    drunken 
    Ira 
    Hayes, 

    he 
    won't 
    answer 
    any
    more, 

    Not that 
    whiskey 
    drinking 
    Indian 
    or 

    Marine 
    who 
    went to 
    war. 

    Verse 9

    Yeah, 

    call 
    him 
    drunken 
    Ira 
    Hayes, 

    but 
    his 
    lan 

    Outro 1

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