Gold Rush Brides Chords by 10,000 Maniacs

_ _ _ Some of the mothers were giving birth to their babies.
Three babies were born in our company that summer.
My cousin Emily gave birth to a son in Utah,
40 miles north of the Great [C] Salt Lake, _ one morning.
[A] But the next morning she [C] traveled on till noon when a stop was made and another [F] child was born,
this time Susan [C] Longmire.
_ And [A] we gave the baby the [C] name Alice Nevada.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, [G] down the [C] very roads.
_ [F] Past the long church fire, [C] past the talking water, from where [G]
to [C] who knows.
[Dm] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
There's no [F] way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild.
[Am] Western [C] plains, where [C] a man that lived in imaginary made his _ [G] biogramy.
Old lost faces, _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ the land was free _ [Dm] and the price was [F] right. _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] Dakota on the wall [F] is a white robe woman [C] brought, yet he made him me.
_ _ _ _ [Gm] Such power in her hand [F] that she has a wagon man [C] of this family.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] I see Indians that crawl [F] through the snow and recall [C] some history.
_ _ _ [F] Who are the homes and wives, [C] who were the gold rush bride?
Does anybody know?
_ [F] Do their wives survive [C] the yellow fever lies?
In pages that they wrote, _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
the land was free _ [Dm] and it cost their [F] lives.
_ _ [C] _ _
_ [Gm] In mind the thoughts for gold, the [F] family's house was once sold [C] piece by piece. _ _
_ [Gm] A little stake to claim [F] on a dollar in his knee, [C] so pink blue and eggy. _
_ [Gm] In that it fell back all the [F] recent sisters, they were more [C] than his maid would be. _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] Out comes the madness, [F] _
childbirth, loneliness [C] and grief.
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_ _ [Gm] Out comes the madness, [F] _
childbirth, loneliness [C] and grief. _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] Out comes the madness, [F] _
childbirth, loneliness [C] and grief. _ _
Out _ [Gm] _ comes the madness, [F] _
childbirth, loneliness [C] and grief. _ _
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