The Ballad of Ira Hayes chords by
Peter La Farge

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Key: D major

Verse 1

Ira Hayes,

Ir a Hayes

Verse 2
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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 drinkin' Indian
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Nor the Marine that went to war

Verse 3
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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 Indian
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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 4

Down the ditches for a thousand years

The water grew Ira's peoples' crops

'Till the white man stole the water rights

And the sparkin' water stopped

Verse 5
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Now Ira's folks were hungry
And their land grew crops of weeds
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When war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed
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Verse 6
Call him drunkin' Ira Hayes
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He won't answer anymore
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Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
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Nor the Marine that went
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to war

Verse 7
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They battled up Iwo Jima's 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

Verse 8

And when the fight was over

And when Old Glory raised

among the men who held it high

Was the Indian, Ira Hayes

Verse 9
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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 drinkin' Indian
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Nor the Marine that went to war
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Verse 10
Ira 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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Everybody shook his hand
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But he was

Verse 11

just a Pima Indian

No water, no crops, no chance

At home nobody cared what Ira'd done

And when do the Indians dance

Verse 12
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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 drinkin' Indian
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Nor the Marine that went to war
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Verse 13
Then Ira started drinkin hard;
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Jail was often his home
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They'd let him raise the flag and lower it
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Like you'd throw a dog a bone!

Verse 14

He died early drunk one mornin'

Alone in the land he fought to save

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch

Was the grave for Ira Hayes

Verse 15
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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 drinkin' Indian
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D D 
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Nor the Marine that went to war

Verse 16
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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 his ghost is lyin' thirsty
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In the ditch where Ira  died

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