John Denver – Trail Of Tears (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# 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
        G                       Em
No more  beautiful moons may we  spend on our lands

       C                  D                     G         D
In the  north the scarlet  councils talks of  war  

        G                               Em 
And the  long knives have massacred the  tribe and burned
corn
          C               D                G
We?re not  welcome in our  homeland any  more

                C      D      G
There will be a  trail  of  tears

                C      D      Em           Em/G
There will be a  trail  of  pain  

                  C                  G                C
And  Jackson will  have the Missisis  ippi and the  twenty

       G
dollar  bill

        C                D                    G
But for  us the trail is  all that will re  main

        G                            Em
No more  songs of the hunters on the  buffalo plain

        C                  D                     G           D
No more  smoke from sacred  fires touch these  hills  

        G                                Em
And the  numbers of the people will grow  fewer every mile

        C                  D                           G
And our  children will not  learn the Great Spirits  way

                C      D      G
There will be a  trail  of  tears

                C      D      Em           Em/G
There will be a  trail  of  pain  

                  C                  G                C
And  Jackson will  have the Missisis  ippi and the  twenty

       G
dollar  bill

        C                D                    G
But for  us the trail is  all that will re  main

       G                             Em
On the  streets of Rapid City on the  road to Wounded Knee

         C                D                 G          D
There is  whiskey for for  getting every  thing  
But the old ones say there may be time from learning from each other
    C                 D                     G
The  way that it had  once been meant to  be

                C      D      G
There will be a  trail  of  tears

                C      D      Em           Em/G
There will be a  trail  of  pain 

                  C                  G                C
And  Jackson will  have the Missisis  ippi and the  twenty

       G
dollar  bill

        C                D                    G
But for  us the trail is  all that will re  main
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