chief joseph
CHIEF JOSEPH
slow military snare roll, T=60, x2, then guitar comes in:
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T=160: two measures of 'train'
355xxx 2b (rhythm: 16th notes: G.xxxxxx)
244xxx 2b
133xxx 2b
022xxx 2b
verse 1: muted 8ths, 4b per chord
(just another) tribe another land another
life is in your hands another
lie another plot another
hundred Sioux've been shot now the
leaders are all dead the chief is
bleeding from the head damn the
savages their death gone to
hell with dying breath there's no
point to carrying on when your
family is gone just an
orphan in the cold should've
left man you were told euro-
centric we don't care gunpowder
smoke hangs in the air the rain will
wash the blood away another
starved another day
chorus: hardcore
355xxx 2b
x133xx 2b
133xxx 2b
355xxx 2b
we will
fight no
more for-
ever we're
done with
trying to
deal with the
weather there's
no hope
fighting the
white man's
gun we've
lost our
home your
war's been
won
verse 2:
(steal the) men and take control what's your
purpose and your goal now e-
radicate new perce' let the
natives keep the worst came to my
hut the other night and in the
dim evening light like a
rug like a whore my brother's
body on the floor for years we
sang and grew crops now my
best friend's heart has stopped how can your
family show pride when you
have to run and hide why don't you
beat on my face call me an in-
ferior race this is
only where we've lived born and
died
chorus x2
Last updated: 02:09:21 on Jan 1 2006
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