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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
W&M by Buffy St. Marie,
as covered by the Indigo Girls.

with help with the words from indigo-girls listmembers.

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"Emily": (sing freely)

DD Piano Chord 
                           AA Piano Chord 

Indian Legislation's on the desk of a do-right congressman

DD Piano Chord 
                                GG Piano Chord 

But he don't know much about the issues so he

AA Piano Chord 

picks up the phone and asks the advice of the

DD Piano Chord 
              BmBm Piano Chord 

senator out in Indian Country, a

GG Piano Chord 
              AA Piano Chord 

darling of the energy companies

BmBm Piano Chord 
                  GG Piano Chord 
           AA Piano Chord 

They're ripping off what's left of the reservation

"Amy": (with more rhythm)

AA Piano Chord 
                           BmBm Piano Chord 

I learned this safety rule I don't know who to thank

AA Piano Chord 
                F#mF#m Piano Chord 
             BmBm Piano Chord 

don't stand between the reservation and the corporate bank

AA Piano Chord 
                       F#mF#m Piano Chord 
                 BmBm Piano Chord 

They're sendin federal tanks, it isn't nice, but it's reality

Chorus:

(no chord)              D       C   G
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

DD Piano Chord 
   CC Piano Chord 
   GG Piano Chord 

I said deep in the earth

DD Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 
   GG Piano Chord 

Won't you cover me with your pretty lies

DD Piano Chord 
     CC Piano Chord 
   GG Piano Chord 

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

AA Piano Chord 
                                 BmBm Piano Chord 

They got these energy companies they're tryin to steal our land
(or: who want to take our land)

AA Piano Chord 
                  F#mF#m Piano Chord 
         BmBm Piano Chord 

They got churches by the dozen tryin to guide our hand

AA Piano Chord 
                                   (F#m?)          BmBm Piano Chord 

and turn our mother earth over to pollution war and greed

Get rich, get rich quick

CHORUS (With echoing BMHAWK's?)

"Jerry Marotta":

We've got the federal books, we've got the covert spies
(or: federal marshals)
They got the liars by fire they got the FBI
They go to court and get nailed and still Leonard Peltier goes off to jail

The bullets didn't match the gun

CHORUS (With echoing BMHAWK's - "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; It was an
eigth of the reservation; It was transferred in secret; You got your
murdering heart and intimidation; Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee")
(or: you got your murder and intimidation, etc...)

We're talking about a revolution

My girlfriend Anna May, she talked about Uranium
Her head was full of bullets and her body dumped
The FBI cut off her hands and told us she died of exposure

CHORUS

Bury me Bury me

We had the gold rush wars, why didn't we learn to crawl?
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl.
They tell me

[No Chord]

Honey you can still be an Indian, I mean, you know, wear those little
moccasins and play those bingo games down at the Y on a Saturday night.
("Bullshit", except I think Amy says "Right" on CompG's)

And they should...
CHORUS ("...You're going to cover me with your pretty lies...")

CHORUS ("...It's an eigth...etc...heart and intimidation...")

'Bury my heart' repeated at end.

First voice stays on low D, second does "Bur" and "heart" on F and "y my" on
E, third does "Bur" and "heart" on A and "y my" on G, and a last voice
can do the high D for "Bur" and "heart" and C for "y my" so it's:

DmDm Piano Chord 
  C/DC/D Piano Chord 
  DmDm Piano Chord 

Bur y My Heart

repeated over and over again. This is pretty much a guess and may be an
approxiamtion of the actual sining or may embellish it. Whatever. You
might try tuning the low E to D and playing the normal D and then C
chords over it with the open bass string allowed to ring.

Notes: For the verse, I think the F#m's are sometimes there and sometimes
not. And listen to the recording for the syncopated strumming pattern.
It's kooky.
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