Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Indian legisla[Bm]tion on [A]the desk of
a do-right congressman
congressman
Now, [D]he don't know
much about the [G]issue
So he pick[A]s up the phone
and he asks advice from
The [D]senator out in Indi[Bm]an country
A [G]darling of the energy
[A]companies who are
[Bm]Ripping off what's [G]left
of the reserva[A]tions
Huh

[Verse 2]
I learned [A]a safety rule
I don't know [Bm]who to thank
Don't stand [A]between the reserva[F#]tion
And the cor[Bm]porate banks
They send [A]in federal tanks
It isn't [F#]nice but it's reality
[Bm]

[Verse 3]
[D]
[Dm]Bury my heart at Wounded [C]Knee[G]
Deep in the [Dm]Earth[C][G]
Cover me with [Dm]pretty [C]lies[G]
Bury my heart at Wounded [Dm]Knee[C][G]
Huh

[Verse 4]
They got these [A]energy companies
that [Bm]want the land
And [A]they've got churches by
[F#]the dozen who want to
[Bm]Guide our hands
And sign [A]Mother Earth over to pol[F#]lution,
war and greed
[Bm]Get rich
Get rich quick
[D]Bury my [Dm]heart at Wounded

[Verse 5]
[C]Knee[G]
Deep in the [Dm]Earth[C][G]
Cover me with [Dm]pretty [C]lies[G]
Bury my heart at [Dm]Wounded [C]Knee[G]

[Verse 6]
We got [A]the federal marshals
We got [Bm]the covert spies
We got the [A]liars by the fire
[F#]We got the F[Bm]BI's
They lie [A]in court and get nailed
And still Pel[F#]tier goes off to jail
[Bm]

[Verse 7]
[D]
[Dm]Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep [C]in [G]the Earth
[Dm]Cover me[C][G]
with [Dm]pretty [C]lies[G]
Bury my heart at Wounded [Dm]Knee[C][G]
Huh

[Verse 8]
My girlfriend [A]Annie Mae
talked about [Bm]uranium
Her head was [A]filled with bullet
[F#]s and her bo[Bm]dy dumped
The [A]FBI cut off her hands
And told [F#]us she'd died of expo[Bm]sure
Loo, loo loo
[D]Bury my [Dm]heart at Wounded

[Verse 9]
[C]Knee[G]
Deep in the [Dm]Earth[C][G]
Cover me with [Dm]pretty lies
[C][G][Dm][C][G]
Bury [Dm]my he[C]ar[G]t at Wounded
[Dm]Knee[C][G][Dm][C][G]
Huh
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[Verse 10]
[G]
We had the [A]Gold Rush wars
Aw, didn't we [Bm]learn to crawl
and still [A]our history gets
[F#]Written in a [Bm]liar's scrawl
They tell [A]ya, "Honey you can still be an [F#]In dian
down at the [Bm]"Y" on Saturday [D]nights"
[Dm]Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

[Verse 11]
[C][G]
Deep in the [Dm]Earth[C][G]
Cover me with [Dm]pretty lies
[C][G][Dm][C][G]
Bury my heart at Wounded [Dm]Knee
[C][G][Dm][C][G]

[Outro 1]
Huh
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