Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[A][D][A][D][A][D]

[Verse 1]
[D]Indian legislation's on
[A]the desk of a do right congressman
[D]And he don't know much about the issues
[G]so he picks up [A]the phone
And asks the advice of the senator
[D]out in Indi[Bm]an country
[G]A darling of the energy
[A]companies [Bm]ripping off
What's [G]left of the reser[A]vation

[Verse 2]
I learned [A]the safety rule
I don't know [Bm]who to thank
Don't stand [A]between the reservation
[Bm]And the corporate bank
They're sending [A]federal tanks
It [F#m]isn't nice but it's real[Bm]ity
Bury my [A]heart at [D]wounded

[Verse 3]
knee
[C]I said [G]deep in the ear[D]th[C][G]
Won't you cover me with pretty [D]lies[C][G]
Bury my heart at [D]wounded [C]knee[G]

[Verse 4]
We got these [A]energy companies
Who want [Bm]to take the land
[D]And we got chu[A]rches by the[F#m] dozens
Trying [Bm]to guide our hands
And turn our [A]mother earth
Over to pollu[F#m]tion war a[A]nd g[Bm]reed
No no
[G]Bury my [D]heart at [A]wounded

[Verse 5]
[D]knee
Bury [C]my heart at wounded [G]knee
I said deep in the [D]earth
Bury my [C]heart at wounded [G]knee
Won't you cover me with
[D]pretty lie[C]s[G]
Bury my heart at [Dm]wounded knee
Bury [C]my heart at wounded [G]knee

[Verse 6]
We got [A]the federal marshals
We [Bm]got the covert spies
We got the liars [A]by [F#m]fire
[Bm]And the FBI
They lie in [A]court and get nailed
And still [F#m]Leonard Peltier goes
off to [Bm]jail
(the bullets don't [F#m]match the gun[A])

[Verse 7]
Bury my heart at wounded [D]knee
An [C]eighth of the reserva[G]tion
Bury my heart at wounded [D]knee
Was [C]transferred in [G]secret
Bury my heart at wounded [D]knee
We got your [C]murder and intimid[G]ation
Bury my heart at wounded [D]knee[C][G]

[Verse 8]
My girlfriend [A]anna may
Talked [Bm]about uranium
Her [F#m]head w[A]as full of b[F#m]ullets
And her [Bm]body dumped
The [A]FBI cut off her hands
And told us [F#m]she died of ex[Bm]posure

[Verse 9]
[Bm]To b[D]ury my heart at wo[A]unded kn[Dm]ee
Bury [C]my heart at wounded knee
[G]I said deep in the [D]earth
Bury my [C]heart at [G]wounded knee
Won't you cover me with [D]your pretty lies
Bury [C]my heart at wounded [G]knee
Bury my heart at [D]wounded knee
Bury my [C]heart at wounded knee
[G]Talk about a rev[D]olution
[C][G][D][C][G]
They stole my [D]land[C][G][D][C][G]
[D]
[C][G][Dm][D][C][G][D]
[C][G]
[D]They won't steal my [C]soul[G]

[Verse 10]
We had [A]the gold rush wars
Why didn't we [Bm]learn to crawl'
And now our [A]history gets [F#m]written
in a li[Bm]ar's scrawl
They tell me "don't [A]be so uptight
I mean honey you can still be an Indian
Down at the y on saturday [D]night''

[Verse 11]
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my [C]heart at wounded [G]knee
I said deep in [D]the earth
Bury my [C]heart at wounded [G]knee
Won't you cover me with
your [D]pretty [C]lies[G]
Bury my heart at [Dm]wounded [D]knee
[C]Bury my hea[G]rt at wounded knee

[Verse 12]
[Dm]Bury [C]my [G]heart
It was an eighth of the reserva[Dm]tion
[C]Bury [G]my heart
Yeah was transferred in [Dm]secret
[C]Bury my heart
[G]Got your murder, murder,
murder and intimid[Dm]ation
Bury [C]me
Bury me
[G]Bury me[Dm]
[C]Bury my [G]heart
[Bb]Bury [C]my hea[G]rt
Bury [Cm]my he[G]art
[Bb]Bury my heart