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From: [email protected] (MR KEN L REYNOLDS)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:54:15, -0500
Subject: d/denver_john/trail_of_tears.pro
album: Dreamland Express
song: Trail of Tears
written by: Randy Handley
performed by: John Denver
trasnscribed: Ken Reynolds
Enjoy my latest contribution to the directory.
Trail Of Tears
Randy Handley
No more [[G]] beautiful moons may we [[Em]] spend on our lands
In the [[C]] north the scarlet [[D]] councils talks of [[G]] war [[D]]
And the [[G]] long knives have massacred the [[Em]] tribe and burned
corn
We?re not [[C]] welcome in our [[D]] homeland any [[G]] more
There will be a [[C]] trail [[D]] of [[G]] tears
There will be a [[C]] trail [[D]] of [[Em]] pain [[Em]/g]
And Jackson will [[C]] have the Missisis [[G]] ippi and the [[C]] twenty
dollar [[G]] bill
But for [[C]] us the trail is [[D]] all that will re [[G]] main
No more [[G]] songs of the hunters on the [[Em]] buffalo plain
No more [[C]] smoke from sacred [[D]] fires touch these [[G]] hills [[D]]
And the [[G]] numbers of the people will grow [[Em]] fewer every mile
And our [[C]] children will not [[D]] learn the Great Spirits [[G]] way
There will be a [[C]] trail [[D]] of [[G]] tears
There will be a [[C]] trail [[D]] of [[Em]] pain [[Em]/g]
And Jackson will [[C]] have the Missis [[G]] sippi and the [[C]] twenty
dollar [[G]] bill
But for [[C]] us the trail is [[D]] all that will re [[G]] main
On the [[G]] streets of Rapid City on the [[Em]] road to Wounded Knee
There is [[C]] whiskey for for [[D]] getting every [[G]] thing [[D]]
But the [[G]] old ones say there may be time from [[Em]] learning from
each other
The [[C]] way that it had [[D]] once been meant to [[G]] be
There is still a [[C]] trail [[D]] of [[G]] tears
There is still a [[C]] trail [[D]] of [[Em]] pain [[Em]/g]
And Jackson has [[C]] got the Missis [[G]] sippi and the [[C]] twenty
dollar [[G]] bill
But for [[C]] us the trail of [[D]] tears re [[G]] main
Jackson has [[C]] got the Missis [[G]] sippi and the [[C]] twenty dollar
[[G]] bill
But how [[C]] long will the [[D]] trail of tears re [[G]] main
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