Chords for Elton John - Indian Sunset (BBC Sounds For Saturday 1971)

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_ _ _ As I awoke this [Abm] evening with the wood smoke slowly clinging, _ like a gentle cobweb hanging
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teepee.
_ _ _ [Ebm] Oh I went to see my chieftain with my war lance and [Db] my woman, for he [Abm] told us that the
yellow moon [Bbm] would very soon be [Db] _ leaving. _ _
_ _ [Ebm] Oh this I can't believe I said, I can't believe [Db] our warlord's dead.
_ _ Oh he would not leave the [Abm] chosen ones to [Db] the buzzards _ and the soldiers' _ guns.
_ Oh [Ebm] great father of the Eerie Choir, _ ever since [Db] I was young, _ _ _ I've read the writing [Abm] of the
smoke [Db] and breastfed on the sound of drums.
_ _ _ [Ebm] I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride the pained and [Db] poorly _ wild. _ _ _
To run the gauntlet [Abm] of the zoo, [Eb] to make a [Bbm] chieftain's daughter mine.
_ _ _ [Ebm] And now he whispers that I should watch the red man's race, [Bbm] they're slowly _ crushed. _ _
What kind of words [Abm] are these to hear [Bbm] from yellow _ dog, _ _ [Db] whom white man fear?
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I take only what is [Em] mine, Lord, _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] my pony, _ [D] my scorn, my [Em] _
child.
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[G] _ Oh I [Bm] can't stay here to [Em] see you die, _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] along with my [Em] tribe's pride.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ go to search [D] for the yellow _ moon _ [G] _
and the _ fathers _ of our [C] sons.
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Where the red sun [Am] _ _ sings [G] in the hills [F] of gold _ [Am]
and the _ healing [G] _ _ waters [C] _ run. _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ Trampling [Bm] down the [Em] prairie roads, _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ leaving [D] hoof tracks in the [Em] _ sand.
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[G] _ _ Those [Bm] who wish to [Em] follow _ me, _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [D] I welcome with my [Em] _ _ [D] hands. _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ I heard from passing [D] _ _ renegades, _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ Geronimo was [C] _ dead.
_ He'd [Em] been laying _ [Am] down _ [C] his weapon _ _ _ when they fell in [Bm] _ full [Em] of _ lead.
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Now _ _ _ _ _ _ _ there seems no [G] reason why _
[C] I should carry [G] on. _ _
[Am] In this land that [G] once was my land, [C] I can't find a [D] home.
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_ [Em] It's lonely and [G] it's quiet _ [C] and the horse soldiers are coming.
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_ [Am] And I think it's time I [G] strung my bow _ [C] and ceased my senseless [D] _
running.
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ [Em] But soon I'll find the [G] yellow moon [C]
along with my [G] loved ones.
[Am] Where the buckloves [G] graze in clover fields [C] without the sound of [D] [A] guns. _
[Em] And the red [G] sun sings at last [C] into the hills of [G] _ gold.
[Am] And peace to this young [G] warrior. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ With a bullet. [Em] Ho! _ _ _ _ _
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