Five Iron Frenzy – Banner Year (Guitar)

D               A                             C
A banner year 1864, don't want the red man anymore,

                G              D
Can't have them taking up good land.

                              A
Give them a token flag, trade pipes and shake some hands,

C                           G
Tell them the white stripes stand for peace.

D                               A
Say if they raise red white and blue,

                               C
Blue coats will never shoot at you,

                 G
But stripes will loose their sheen,

D                            A
Black Kettle was their chief, he only wanted peace,

C                  G
Under the flag...a massacre at Sand Creek.

A               C
Wave your flag.  Salivate.

G                    D
Stirring feelings of pride and hate.

A          C                     D
A peace of cloth can't hold your faith.

G       D                F
No flag flies, no banner waves,

              C
See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G      D              F
No one knows where he lies,

       C
and no one know just why he had to die.

D             A     C              G
A banner year 1868, a bitter end a twist of fate.

D                        A
Maps won't hold this melanoma,

                   C
Blurry part of Oklahoma,

             G
Where Custer shot and killed Black Kettle.

A                C
Wave your flag.  Salivate.

G                    D
Stirring feelings of pride and hate.

A          C                     D
A peace of cloth can't hold your faith.

G       D                F
No flag flies, no banner waves,

              C
See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G      D              F
No one knows where he lies,

       C
and no one know just why he had to die.

G        C
A promise is a promise,

G         C
A judge of character.

A          D          A D
His banner over me is love.

G       D                F
No flag flies, no banner waves,

              C
See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G      D              F
No one knows where he lies,

       C
and no one know just why he had to die.

G       D                F
No flag flies, no banner waves,

              C
See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G      D              F
No one knows where he lies,

       C
and no one know just why he had to die.