Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Cm
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Verse 1
not a single word was said
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F
Except one old lonely ghost said the general's still dead,
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C
the general's still dead
I asked him if any
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Indians ever came to call
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Cm
He said the last one that he'd seen rode off a big chief gall,
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rode off a big chief gall
Old
Sitting
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He saw blue coat pony soldiers fallin' upside down,
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fallin' upside down
There was not a single leaf on a cottonwood
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F
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tree
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F
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Cavalry
I stood on
Kowloon's hill
Rain fell like shattered glass
F
I felt 12 ,000 soldiers, blood flowing through the grass,
I saw a hundred years of
Indians dancing in the sun
I felt the
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Indian power, the battle is still won,
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Eb
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battle is still won
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When they shot him through the heart,
I wonder if it hurt
They left
Mrs.
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Custer's husband to die there in the dirt,
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C
die there in the dirt
Then a soldier came and
took me to the train
He said,
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F
C
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Eb
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forget you ever came
I went to live a big one,
not a single word was said
Except one old lonely
ghost said the
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F
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F
C
Bb
General's still dead
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Bb
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C
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Gm
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ChordsC Cm F Bb Eb...
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