Yellow Hair chords by Tia Blake

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Verse 1
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In the
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land of
Maracuja there lived a foreign girl
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She imagined that the natives
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would liken her to pearl
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With her rare and whitened body so long,
it skimmed the moon.
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With fingers fair and narrow,
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the strange yellow hair she grew.
I'll need no weapons here,
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though I've heard the men are wild.
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Their skin is colored globe,
and they feed on fear and guile.
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For when they see my passing,
my head above the sun,
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They'll take me for a spirit,
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and to their tribes they'll run.
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Crying, we have seen the
river's daughter,
For her eyes are silver fish,
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And her movement is like water.
We must gather up our children
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Down by  the water place,
And with finest skins and chieftain's bones,
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Make a temple to her face.
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And the girl inside her shelter,
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Built near the river's flow,
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Awaiting their coming,
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her thoughts began to slow.
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An  d in the jungle's darkness,
a circle grew around,
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Its teeth like funeral stones,
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its hands swift falling down,
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To still her feathered breathing
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With slightest silent care
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They killed her for her dif
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ference in innocence
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But they kept her yellow hair