Trail Of Tears

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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

There will be a trail of pain [Em/g]

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

There will be a trail of pain [Em/g]

C G C

And Jackson will have the Missis sippi 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

G Em

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 is still a trail of tears

C D Em

There is still a trail of pain [Em/g]

C G C

And Jackson has got the Missis sippi and the twenty

G

dollar bill

C D G

But for us the trail of tears re main

C G C

Jackson has got the Missis sippi and the twenty dollar

G

bill

C D G

But how long will the trail of tears re main

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