Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo - Pine Ridge guitar tab

e: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:03:07 -0300

From: Andrew Woods

Subject: b/blue_rodeo/pine_ridge.crd

tabbed by Andrew Woods

Pine Ridge

Written and performed by Greg Keelor with Blue Rodeo

From the Leonard Peltier benefit album "Pine Ridge"

I think this is as close as it comes. Any suggestions on the lyrics

or anything else: woodsa@tuns.ca

D-Em-C-G

D-Em-C-G

D Em C G

Gun squads got whatever they wanted

D Em C G

On Pine Ridge

G G/B C D

Dickie Wilson the only law and order

G G/F# Em C D

Sat back and watched while over 100 were murdered

Em Bm C D

He'd made his bed with the government man

C C/B Am D

Taking everything he could for himself, his family and

G G/B C D

friends

G G/B C D

And he didn't want those longhairs on his reservation

G G/F# Em C D

They were always causing trouble and instigating

Em Bm C D

So he waged his war of intimidation

C C/B Am D G G/B C D

On his poverty stricken reservation

G G/B C D

From ??wounded knees?? to the ??longest walks??

G G/F# Em C D

While the government destroys what won^?t be bought

Em Bm C D

When the whites first came to the Black Hills for the gold

C C/B Am D G

Now the corporations steal the uranium and coal

D Em C G

They destroyed the land and the traditional ways

D Em C G

And you can^?t drink the water, you better not stand in the way

D Em C G

On Pine Ridge

D Em C G

On Pine Ridge

Em C D G G/F#

This is a song of freedom

Em C D G G/F#

While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky

Em C D G G/F#

For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned

Em C D

This is a song of freedom

G G/B C D

G G/B C D

Em Em Em Em

C7

The government man hate the color of your skin and your ?dogshined?

Em

reservation

C7 Em

No reasons why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red van

C7

And the FBI admit Leonard Peltier did not commit the killings that have

kept

Em

him 20 years in prison

C7 Em

G D Em C

This is a song of freedom

Em

C7 Em

No explanations why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red

van

C7

Well maybe because Dickie Wilson was in Washington selling uranium to

the

Em

American nightmare

G F Bb C

As the people striving 2 FBI were lying dead in a pasture

G F

Williams and Collier

C7

Caught in a crossfire

G7

G7

Dino Butler and ??Bob Roberdobo?? got tried and acquitted

G7

And the case against Jimmy Eagle was so weak it never got prosecuted

C7

So they set their sights on the last chance of a conviction

Eb7 D7

with a ??record?? eye-witness and a legal extradition

C7

Leonard Peltier had fled across the border to southern Alberta

G F

The Canadian government was far too eager

Bb C7

And in awe of their elected copkiller

G G/B C D

There's a few that know the truth this morning in Oglala

G G/F# Em C D

They^?re as silent as the land, as silent as Williams and Collier

Em Bm C D

They^?re as silent as the eagle in the endless blue sky

C C/B Am D G

They^?re as silent as the sun, she's been watching such a long time

D Em C G

Cause it^?s a sacred mind of ???? that's brought to the ?????

D Em C G

Leonard Peltier's rule divided the land

D Em C G

And the soldiers came to protect their own

D Em C G

With the promises of peace and the land that they stole

D Em C G

And they murdered Crazy Horse killed off the buffalo

D Em C G

Since yesterday and today and all of tomorrow

D Em C G

There^?s a silence in the land, there^?s a sadness in the people

D Em C G

But life goes on, it's the same as it's always done

D Em C G

On Pine Ridge

D Em C G

On Pine Ridge

solo (over D-Em-C-G)

Em C D G G/F#

This is a song of freedom

Em C D G G/F#

While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky

Em C D G G/F#

For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned

Em C D

This is a song of freedom

G G/B C D

C C/B Am D G

--

"Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do

is hang the Pendulum from it."

-Umberto Eco

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