The code of handsome lake chords by Robbie Robertson

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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These are the people of the longhouse
These are the people
that you tried to break
These are the people of the pines
Who follow the code of
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Handsome Lake

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Verse 2

He drank your poison, swallowed your fire

And lay with fever four long years

He received a vision so inspired

Three messengers with

painted faces appeared

Verse 3
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On the Allegheny river at
a place called Burnt House
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The code was shared for the very first time
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By a Seneca chief,
they call Handsome Lake
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With a wounded heart and a sober mind

Verse 4
C 
These are the people of the
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longhouse
These are the people
that you tried to break
These are the people of the pines
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C 
Who follow the code of Handsome Lake

Verse 5
C 
We are the people of the
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longhouse
We are the people that you
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couldn't break
We are the people of the sacred
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pipe
Who follow the code of
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Handsome Lake

Verse 6
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When the dark moon has come
to live in your soul
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Get in touch with your creator,
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you are not alone
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These are the words that he had spoken
two hundred years ago
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And today they still ring true,
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like they're carved in stone
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When native life was hurled into the pit by way of the canon,
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rum, and greed
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Oh a great fire was burned,
to let the smoke rise
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And show the Six Nations
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the code was still alive

Verse 7

Way down deep in the bush

Verse 8

We oh hi ne oh he oh we oh we we

Way down deep in the bush

Verse 9

We oh hi ne oh he oh we oh we we

Way down deep in the bush

We oh hi ne oh he oh we oh we we

Verse 10
C 
These are the people
of the longhouse
These are the people
that you tried to break
These are the people of the pines
F 
G 
Who follow the code of Handsome Lake

Verse 11
C 
We are the people of the longhouse
We are the people that you
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tried to break
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We are the people of the sacred pipe
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Who follow the code of Handsome Lake
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Interlude 1

Verse 12
C 
These are the people of
the longhouse
These are the people
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that you couldn't break
C 
G 
C 
These are the people of the pines
Dm 
G 
Who follow the code of Handsome Lake

Verse 13
C 
We are the people of the longhouse
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We are the one that you tried to break
C 
Dm 
We are the people of the sacred pipe
Am 
Dm 
G 
Who follow the code of Handsome
Am 
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Am 
Lake