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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:27:39 -0600 (CST)
 From: Casey Connor 
 Subject: CRD: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as done by Indigo Girls
 
 Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
 W&M by Buffy St. Marie,
 as covered by the Indigo Girls.
 
 Another four-chord song transcribed by guitar GOD casey@cec.wustl.edu,
 with help with the words from indigo-girls listmembers.
 
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 "Emily": (sing freely)
 
 D                           A
 Indian Legislation's on the desk of a do-right congressman
 
 D                                G
 But he don't know much about the issues so he
 
 A        
 picks up the phone and asks the advice of the
 
 D              Bm
 senator out in Indian Country, a
 
 G              A
 darling of the energy companies
 
         Bm                  G           A
 They're ripping off what's left of the reservation
 
 
 "Amy": (with more rhythm)
 
              A                           Bm
 I learned this safety rule I don't know who to thank
 
             A                F#m             Bm
 don't stand between the reservation and the corporate bank
 
                A                       F#m                 Bm
 They're sendin federal tanks, it isn't nice, but it's reality
 
 Chorus:
 
 (no chord)              D       C   G
 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
 
                          D   C   G
 I said deep in the earth
 
                             D            C   G
 Won't you cover me with your pretty lies
 
                         D     C   G
 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
 
 
                A                                 Bm
 They got these energy companies they're tryin to steal our land
                            (or: who want to take our land)
 
          A                  F#m         Bm
 They got churches by the dozen tryin to guide our hand
 
 A                                   (F#m?)          Bm
 and turn our mother earth over to pollution war and greed
 
 Get rich, get rich quick
 
 CHORUS (With echoing BMHAWK's?)
 
 "Jerry Marotta":
 
 We've got the federal books, we've got the covert spies
          (or: federal marshals)
 They got the liars by fire they got the FBI
 They go to court and get nailed and still Leonard Peltier goes off to jail
 
 The bullets didn't match the gun
 
 CHORUS (With echoing BMHAWK's - "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; It was an 
 eigth of the reservation; It was transferred in secret; You got your  
 murdering heart and intimidation; Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee")
 (or: you got your murder and intimidation, etc...)
 
 We're talking about a revolution
 
 My girlfriend Anna May, she talked about Uranium
 Her head was full of bullets and her body dumped
 The FBI cut off her hands and told us she died of exposure
 
 CHORUS
 
 Bury me Bury me
 
 We had the gold rush wars, why didn't we learn to crawl?
 And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl.
 They tell me
 
 [No Chord]
 
 Honey you can still be an Indian, I mean, you know, wear those little
 moccasins and play those bingo games down at the Y on a Saturday night.
 ("Bullshit", except I think Amy says "Right" on CompG's)
 
 And they should...
 CHORUS ("...You're going to cover me with your pretty lies...")
 
 CHORUS ("...It's an eigth...etc...heart and intimidation...")
 
 'Bury my heart' repeated at end.
 
 First voice stays on low D, second does "Bur" and "heart" on F and "y my" on 
 E, third does "Bur" and "heart" on A and "y my" on G, and a last voice 
 can do the high D for "Bur" and "heart" and C for "y my" so it's:
 
 
 Dm  C/D  Dm
 Bur y My Heart
 
 repeated over and over again. This is pretty much a guess and may be an 
 approxiamtion of the actual sining or may embellish it. Whatever. You 
 might try tuning the low E to D and playing the normal D and then C 
 chords over it with the open bass string allowed to ring.
 
 Notes: For the verse, I think the F#m's are sometimes there and sometimes 
 not. And listen to the recording for the syncopated strumming pattern. 
 It's kooky.
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