Indian Sunset Chords by Mary Travers

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[Abm] As he [B] awoke that evening [N] _
With the smell of wood smoke clinging _
_ Like a gentle cobweb hanging _ Upon [B] a painted _ teepee
_ _ [Ebm] He went to see his [F] chieftain With his war lance and his [Eb] woman
_ For they told him that the yellow moon Would very soon be _ leaving
_ _ _ [Ebm] All this I can't believe he said I won't believe a [Eb] _ [Db] warlord's dead
_ [Eb] He would not leave the [Bb] chosen ones To [Eb] the buzzards [Db] and the soldiers' _ _ _ guns
[Ebm] Oh great father of the Iroquois Ever _ since [Bb] I was [Db] _ young
_ [Ebm] I've read the writing [Bb] of the smoke [Db] And breastfed on the [Ab] sound of _ _ [Db] drums
I'll [Ebm] _ _ _ attend the tomahawk And ride a painted [Db] pony one _
To _ [Ebm] run the [Bb] gauntlet of the Sioux [Db] To make a chieftain's [F] daughter _ [Eb] mine
_ [Ebm] And now he asks that I should watch The red men's race [Db] be slowly _ _ crushed
[Ebm] What kind of words are these to [Bb] hear [Db] From yellow dog _ whom the white man _ _ fears
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I take [Bm] only _ [Em] what is _ mine [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
My [Am] pony, [G] my [D] squaw, and [Em] my _ [D] child
_ _ I [G] _
_ _ [Bm] can't stay [Em] to see [E] you [G] die _ _ _ [C] _
_ Along with [D] my tribe's [E] _
pride
[D] _ _ _ I [Am] _
_ go to search for the [D] yellow _ _ moon And [G] the _ _ fathers of our [C] _
sons
_ _ [G] Where the red sun [Am] sinks _ [G] In the hills of [C] gold
And the healing _ [G] _ _ waters [C] _
broad
_ _ Trampling _ _ _
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_ _ [Bm] down [D] the [Em] prairie _ [G] roads _ _ _ [C] _ _
Leaving [D] hoof tracks [E] in the _ _
[D] sand
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Those [Bm] who wish [D] to [Em] follow _ [G] me _ Are _ _ [C] welcome [D] _ with my [C] _ _ _ [D] _
hand
[Am] I _ _ heard from passing _ [D] _ _ _ _
renegades _ [G] _ _ _ Geronimo _ was [C] _ _ dead _ _
[G] He'd been laying [Am] _ down [G] his _ weapons [C] _ _ When [Am] they killed [Bm] him full [Em] of flesh _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Now there seems [D] no reason _ [C] why I should carry [G] _ on
[Am] In this land that once [G] was my land [C]
I can't find [G] a home
[Em] It's lonely and it's [D] quiet And the [C] horse soldiers are [G] coming
_ And [Am] I think it's time [Bm] I strung [G] my bow
[C] And ceased my [G] senseless _ _ running _ _ [Em] For now _ [D] I'm the yellow moon
[C] _ Along with my [A] loved [G] ones [Am] Where the buffaloes graze
[G] In the clover fields [C] Without the sound [G] of _ _ guns
_ _ [Am] [Em] And the red sun [D] sinks at [Bm] last [C] Into the hills [G] of gold
[Am] And peace to this [G] young warrior _ [C] _
_ _ comes With a bullet
[Em] _ HOME _ _ _ _ _ _
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