Wounded Knee chords by
Joe Ely
Joe Ely

N/A
Key: G major
Intro 1
G
G

F
F

C
C

D
D

Verse 1
C
C

D
D

I took a bride in the badlands
C
C

D
D

in 1852
C
C

She was warm as the morning sun
D
D

That shone in the morning in the dew
C
C

D
D

There wars up on our land
C
C

We could not settle down
D
D

The years went by
C
C

We watched our people die
D
D

We laid them in the ground
Verse 2
D
D

I watched my sons grow
C
C

D
D

tall and strong
C
C

But one by one they fell
D
D

C
C

My daughters were raped by the Calvary
D
D

I wish them all to hell
C
C

D
D

I wished them all to hell
Verse 3
G
G

F
F

G
G

Custer said to Crazy horse
F
F

Wolves are on your heel
G
G

F
F

Crazy horse said the wolves will howl
G
G

When they see you Kneel
Interlude 1
G
G

F
F

C
C

D
D

Verse 4
D
D

The Battles are raging and
C
C

G
G

C
C

D
D

the bullets flew
C
C

D
D

and the skies turned red
C
C

The men all fought un to the end
The women and the children fled
D
D

Verse 5
C
C

When sitting Bull was killed
D
D

in the stockade
C
C

For the crime of being proud
D
D

C
C

The people all went with big Foot to find
D
D

The renegade Chief Red cloud
Verse 6
D
D

C
C

D
D

I caught a bullet in my knee
C
C

D
D

I passed out from the pain
C
C

When I finally came again
D
D

They said my wife had been slain
C
C

D
D

They said my wife had been slain
Verse 7
G
G

F
F

G
G

Custer did to crazy horse
F
F

Can you feel my blood on your heels
G
G

F
F

Crazy horse said the sound of a heartbeat
G
G

is a sound you'll never feel
Interlude 2
G
G

F
F

C
C

D
D

Verse 8
C
C

they dug a grave in the back
D
D

of the church
Verse 9
C
C

laid my people in the ground
D
D

C
C

Buried my wife and my last long son
I hung my heavy head down
D
D

Verse 10
C
C

The medicine man he gathered
D
D

us together
Distance in his eyes
C
C

D
D

C
C

and before he spoke a word
He raised his hands to the sky
D
D

Verse 11
C
C

D
D

Through our battles have been lost
C
C

D
D

No one has been won
C
C

Though it be a hundred years
D
D

C
C

We will overcome
We will overcome
D
D

Verse 12
He lifted his head and he
C
C

D
D

said once more
C
C

D
D

Turn your eyes to the east
C
C

Soon the morning sun will come
D
D

No war can cause to cease
C
C

No war can cause to cease.

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG F C D

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