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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Key: C

Introduction:

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          Indian legislation's on the desk of a do-right Congressman,
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          now, he don't know much about the issue,
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          so he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the
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          Senator out in Indian country, a darling of the energy companies,
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          who are ripping off what's left of the reservations.
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          I learned a safety rule, I don't know who to thank,
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          don't stand between the reservation and the corporate bank.
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          They send in federal tanks, it isn't nice but it's reality.
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
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deep in the Earth!!
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Cover me with pretty lies
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee !
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          They got these energy companies who want the land,
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          and they've got churches by the dozens want to guide our hand,
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             and sign our Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed.
          (Get rich, get rich quick!)
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
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deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee !
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Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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          We get the federal marshals, we get the covert spies,
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          we get the liars by the fire, and we get the FBIs.
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          They lie in court and get nailed, and still Peltier goes off to jail,
          (The bullets don't match the gun!)
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, an eighth of the reservation,
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee, transferred in secret.
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, murder and intimidation,
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, Aiyi-aiyi!
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          My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium,
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          her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped.
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          The FBI cut off her hands and told us                    she died of exposure.
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
                                  C                                    Bb                                         F  
deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee!
                                          C                                                 Bb                                         F  
Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
                                                                        C                              Bb                                         F  
bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
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bury my heart at Wounded Knee. (4x)
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          We had the goldrush wars, ah, didn't we learn to crawl,
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          and now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl.
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          They tell you,                    "Hey, honey, you can still be an Indian
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          d-d-down at the Y on Saturday nights."
                                                                        C                                 Bb                                         F  
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
                                  C                                    Bb                                         F  
deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee !
                                          C                                                 Bb                                         F  
Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
                                                                        C                              Bb                                         F  
bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
                                                                        C                                 Bb                                         F  
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
                                  C                                    Bb                                         F  
deep in the Earth, bury my heart at Wounded Knee !
                                          C                                                 Bb                                         F  
Cover me with pretty lies, bury my heart at Wounded Knee,
                                                                        C                              Bb                                         F  
bury my heart at Wounded Knee, bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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        Bury my heart at Wounded Knee !    (6x)

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