Key: A major
Intro 1
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D
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Verse 1
Across the smoking battle ground
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Where red and white men lay all around
Esus4
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So many here had died
Verse 2
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Snow white leaves upon the ground
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Not leaves like leaves from trees
Sequoia said, "What can this be?"
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like these?"
Verse 3
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Sequoia turned to his father's eyes
From where come such
snow white leaves
Not even the wise owl could put them there
Verse 4
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Em
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His father shielding his concern
Resenting the knowledge
Sequoia yearned
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Crumbled the snow white leaves
He said, "When I explain
then it's done
These are talking leaves, my son
The white men's talk
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ing leaves"
Verse 5
of black and red
And an eagle's feather
from the eagle's bed
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And he makes bird track marks
And the marks on the leaves they say
Verse 6
what's in his heart
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They see these marks and they
understand
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The truth in the heart of the far off man
The enemies can't hear them
Said Sequoia's father, "Son
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Leave such things to them"
Verse 7
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Then Sequoia walking lightly
But so amazed was he
Verse 8
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But he could not forget
Year after year he worked on and on
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Till finally he cut in to stone
Verse 9
The Cherokee alphabet
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But he taught all who would believe
That the Indian's thoughts
could be written down
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Just as the white men's
there on the ground
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsA D E Esus4 Em
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