Key: G major
Intro 1
B
A
E
F#
Verse 1
E
F#
I took a bride in the badlands
E
F#
in 1852
E
She was warm as the morning sun
F#
That shone in the morning in the dew
E
F#
There wars up on our land
E
We could not settle down
F#
The years went by
E
We watched our people die
F#
We laid them in the ground
Verse 2
F#
I watched my sons grow
E
F#
tall and strong
E
But one by one they fell
F#
E
My daughters were raped by the Calvary
F#
I wish them all to hell
E
F#
I wished them all to hell
Verse 3
B
A
B
Custer said to Crazy horse
A
Wolves are on your heel
B
A
Crazy horse said the wolves will howl
B
When they see you Kneel
Interlude 1
B
A
E
F#
Verse 4
F#
The Battles are raging and
E
B
E
F#
the bullets flew
E
F#
and the skies turned red
E
The men all fought un to the end
The women and the children fled
F#
Verse 5
E
When sitting Bull was killed
F#
in the stockade
E
For the crime of being proud
F#
E
The people all went with big Foot to find
F#
The renegade Chief Red cloud
Verse 6
F#
E
F#
I caught a bullet in my knee
E
F#
I passed out from the pain
E
When I finally came again
F#
They said my wife had been slain
E
F#
They said my wife had been slain
Verse 7
B
A
B
Custer did to crazy horse
A
Can you feel my blood on your heels
B
A
Crazy horse said the sound of a heartbeat
B
is a sound you'll never feel
Interlude 2
B
A
E
F#
Verse 8
E
they dug a grave in the back
F#
of the church
Verse 9
E
laid my people in the ground
F#
E
Buried my wife and my last long son
I hung my heavy head down
F#
Verse 10
E
The medicine man he gathered
F#
us together
Distance in his eyes
E
F#
E
and before he spoke a word
He raised his hands to the sky
F#
Verse 11
E
F#
Through our battles have been lost
E
F#
No one has been won
E
Though it be a hundred years
F#
E
We will overcome
We will overcome
F#
Verse 12
He lifted his head and he
E
F#
said once more
E
F#
Turn your eyes to the east
E
Soon the morning sun will come
F#
No war can cause to cease
E
No war can cause to cease.
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