Bruce Cockburn – Indian Wars (Guitar)

Capo 4
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

Tuning C A D G B e
Bdim voicing 2 2 3 0 3 0

[riff1]
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|-2s4s2--0--0----|
D|-2s4s2--0--0--0-|
A|----------------|
C|----------------|

[riff2]
e|-------------------|
B|-s5s3--1--0--0h1p0-|
G|-------------------|
D|-------------------|
A|-------------------|
C|-------------------|

[riff3]
e|----------------|---------------|
B|-s5s3--1--0--1--|---------------|
G|-s4s2--0--0--0--|-------------0-|
D|----------------|---------------|
A|----------------|---------------|
C|----------------|-0--0--2--2----|
[INTRO] Am riff1 C Am riff1 C [VERSE 1]
Am                                     C
Out in the desert where the wind never stops

Am                                    C
A few simple people try to grow a few crops

Fmaj7                           C     riff2  Fmaj7
Trying to maintain a life and a home

C                       Bdim                      C      riff3
On land that was theirs before the Romans founded Rome
[VERSE 2]
Am                                C
A few dozen survivors, ragged but proud

Am                                       C
With a few woolly sheep, under gathering cloud

Fmaj7                              C      riff2   Fmaj7
It's never been easy, or free from strife

C                         Bdim                  C riff3
But the pulse of the land is the pulse of their life
[CHORUS]
Fmaj7                                        C
You thought it was over but it's just like before

Dm                     Bdim              Cadd4    C
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?
[VERSE 3]
         Am                                  C
It's not breech-loading rifles and wholesale slaughter

     Am                               C
It's kickbacks and thugs and diverted water

Fmaj7                                     C     riff2  Fmaj7
Treaties get signed and the papers change hands

         C                   Bdim                C    riff3
But they might as well draft these agreements in sand
[VERSE 4]
Am                         C
Noble Savage on the cinema screen

Am                                 C
An Indian's good when he cannot be seen

        Fmaj7                     C    riff2 Fmaj7
And the so-called white so-called race

C               Bdim     C         riff3
Digs for itself a pit of disgrace
[CHORUS]
Fmaj7                                        C
You thought it was over but it's just like before

Dm                     Bdim              Cadd4   C
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?

Fmaj7                                        C
You thought it was over but it's just like before

Dm                     Bdim              Cadd4   C
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?