Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Buffy Sainte-Marie - LYRICS - 1973 Incident Chords

[Eb] _ _ [Cm] Indian [Bb] legislation's on the desk of a do-right congressman.
[Eb] Now he don't [Ab] know much about the issue, [Bb] so he picks up the phone
and he asks [Eb] advice of the senators [Cm] out in Indian country.
[Ab] But darling [Bb] are the energy [Cm] companies who are ripping [Ab] off what's left of [Bb] the reservations.
I learned a safety rule, I [Cm] don't know who pooled.
Bank don't [Bb] stand between the [G] reservation [Cm] and the corporate.
Bank, [Gm] they'll send in [Bb] federal tanks, it [G] isn't nice but it's [Cm] reality.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ Bury my heart in womb at me.
[Db] _ _ [Ab] _ _ Deep [Eb] in the earth, [Db] _ _ _ [Ab] _ cover [Eb] me with pretty [Gb] lies.
[Ab] _ Bury my heart in [Eb] womb at me.
[Db] _ _ [Ab] _ _ They [Bb] got these energy companies [Cm] who want the land
[Gm] and [Bb] they've got churches [G] by the gardens, [Cm] want to guide our hand
[Gm] and sign our mother earth [Bb] over [G] to pollution, war [Cm] and greed.
_ _ [Eb] _ Bury my heart in womb at me.
[Abm] Bury my [Db] heart [Ab] in womb at me.
Deep [Ebm] in the earth, [Db] bury my heart in womb at [Ab] me.
Cover me with [Ebm] pretty lies.
[Db] Bury my heart in womb [Ab] at me.
Bury my heart in [Ebm] womb at me.
Bury my heart in [Ab] womb at me.
We [Bb] get the federal marshals, we [Cm] get the covert spies.
[Gm] We get the liars [G] by the fire and we [Cm] get the FBI's.
They [Bb] lie in court and get nailed and [G] still Peltier goes off [Cm] to jail.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Abm] Bury my heart in [Ebm] womb at [Db] me.
The nail to the [Ab] reservation.
Bury my heart in [Eb] womb at me.
[Db] Bury [Ab] in secret.
Bury my heart in [Ebm] womb at me.
[Db] Murder and [Ab] intimidation.
Bury my heart in womb [Ebm] at me.
_ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _ My [Bb] girlfriend Annie Mae talked [Cm] about geranium.
Her [Gm] head was filled [G] with bullets [Cm] and her body dumped.
[Bb] The FBI got off her hands and [G] told us she died [Cm] of exposure.
_ _ Bury [B] my heart in [Ebm] womb at me.
Bury [Db] my heart in [Ab] womb at me.
Deep in [Eb] the earth, [Db] bury my heart [Ab] in womb at me.
Cover [Ebm] me with pretty lies.
[Db] _ _ [Ab] Bury my heart in womb [Ebm] at me.
Bury [Db] my heart in womb [Ab] at me.
Bury my heart in womb [Ebm] at me.
Bury [Db] my heart in [Ab] womb at me.
Bury my heart in womb [Ebm] at me.
Bury [Db] my _ [Ab] _ _ heart in womb [Ebm] at me.
Burn [Db] my heart in womb [Ab] at me.
Bury my heart in womb [Ebm] at me.
Bury [Db] my heart in womb [Ab] at me.
_ We have [Bb] got so much worth.
Why [Cm] didn't we learn to crawl.
And [Bb] now our [G] history gets written [Cm] in a liars' scrawl.
[Bb] _
Hey, honey, [G] you can still be an Indian.
[Cm] Don't ask why on Saturday [Eb] night.
Oh, bury my [Ebm] heart.
It's open.
We [Db] are in my heart.
And [Ab] we're _ in [Ebm] the year.
Sorry, [Db] my heart.
[Ab] And we're going to cover me with three [Db] lines.
_ [Ab] Sorry, my heart.
And you don't [Ebm] get me.
Sorry, [Db] my heart. [Ab] Hey, sorry.
My heart is a modern one [Ebm] that you [Db] are
on [Ab] closed.
_ Hey, [Ebm] Heather,
[Db] I won't [Ab] give it _
[Ebm] to my [Gb] roommate.
[Ab] Berry, my hardest [Ebm] woman.
[Db] I love _ [Ab] her.
She was
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