The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
The Ballad Of Ira Hayes

The Ballad Of Ira Hayes easy guitar chords by Kris Kristofferson

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    • Verse 1
    Ira 
    Hayes, 
    Ira 
    Hayes 

    Call 
    him drunken 
    Ira 
    Hayes 

    He 
    won't 
    answer 
    anymore 

    Not 
    the 
    whiskey 
    -drinkin' 
    Indian 

    Nor 
    the mar
    ine 
    that 
    went 
    to 
    war 

    Gather 
    round 
    me, people 

    There's 
    a 
    story 
    I would 
    tell 

    About 
    a 
    brave 
    young 
    Indian 

    you 
    should 
    remember 
    well 

    From 
    the land 
    of the 
    Pima 
    Indian, 

    a 
    proud 
    and 
    noble 
    man 

    Who 
    farmed 
    the 
    Phoenix 
    Valley 

    and 
    Arizona 
    land 

    Down 
    the 
    ditches 
    for a 
    thousand 
    years 

    the 
    water 
    grew 
    Irish 
    people's 
    crops 

    Till 
    the white 
    man 
    stole 

    the water 
    rights, 

    and the 
    sparkling 
    water 
    stopped. 

    Now Ira's 
    folks 
    were 
    hungry, 

    and the 
    land 
    grew crops 
    of weeds. 

    When 
    the 
    war 
    came, 
    Ira 
    volunteered, 

    and for
    got 
    the white 
    man's 
    greed. 

    Call 
    him 
    drunken 
    Ira 
    Haines, 

    if 
    he 
    won't 
    answer 
    anymore. 

    Not 
    the 
    whiskey 
    -drinkin' 
    Indians 

    or 
    the mar
    ine 
    that 
    went 
    to 
    war 

    There 
    they 
    battled 
    up 
    Iwo Jima's 
    Hill, 

    two 
    hun
    dred and 
    fifty 
    men 

    But 
    only 
    twenty 
    -seven 
    lived 

    to 
    walk 
    back 
    down 
    again 

    When 
    the 
    fight 
    was over 

    and 
    when old 
    glory 
    raised 

    Among 
    the 
    men 
    who 
    held 
    it high 

    was 
    the Indian, 
    Ira 
    Hayes. 

    Call 
    him 
    drunken, 
    Ira 
    Hayes, 

    he 
    won't 
    answer 
    any 
    more. 

    Not 
    the 
    whiskey 
    -drinking 
    Indian, 

    nor 
    the 
    marine 
    that 
    went 
    to 
    war. 

    Ira 
    returned 
    a 
    hero, 

    celebrated 
    through 
    the 
    land. 

    He 
    was 
    whined 
    and 
    speeched 

    and honored, 

    every
    body 
    shook 
    his 
    hand. 

    But 
    he was 
    just 
    a Pima 
    Indian, 

    no 
    water
    , 
    no 
    crops, 
    no 
    chance. 

    At 
    home 
    nobody 
    cared 
    what 
    I 
    was done, 

    when 
    did 
    the Indians 
    dance? 

    Call 
    him 
    drunken 
    I 
    will hate, 

    he 
    won't 
    answer 
    anymore. 

    Not 
    the 
    whiskey 
    -drinkin' 
    Indian 

    nor 
    the mar
    ine 
    that 
    went 
    to 
    war 

    Then 
    Iris 
    started 
    drinkin' 
    hard, 

    Jill 
    was 
    off in 
    his home 

    He 
    let 
    him raise 
    the 
    flag 

    and lower 
    it 
    like 
    he'd 
    throw 
    a dog 
    a 
    bone 

    He 
    died 
    drunk 
    one 
    morning, 

    alone 
    in 
    the land 
    he fought 
    to 
    save 

    Two 
    inches 
    of 
    water 
    in 
    a lonely 
    dish 

    was 
    a grave 
    for 
    Ira 
    Hayes. 

    Call 
    him 
    Drunken 
    Ira 
    Hayes, 

    you 
    won't 
    answer 
    any 
    more. 

    Not the 
    whiskey 
    -drinkin' 
    Indian 

    or 
    the mar
    ine 
    that 
    went 
    to war. 

    Yeah, 
    call him 
    Drunken 
    Ira 
    Hayes, 

    but 
    his land 
    is 
    just 
    as dry, 

    And 
    his 
    ghost 
    is 
    lyin' 
    thirsty 

    in 
    the 
    ditch 
    where 
    Ira 
    died. 

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