Five Iron Frenzy - Banner Year guitar tab

Banner Year

Five Iron Frenzy

(Reese Roper/Scott Kerr)

tabbed by: nastryker@juno.com

D A C G(X2)

D A C

A banner year 1864, don't want the red man anymore,

G D

Can't have them taking up good land.

A

Give them a token flag, trade pipes and shake some hands,

C G

Tell them the white stripes stand for peace.

D A

Say if they raise red white and blue,

C

Blue coats will never shoot at you,

G

But stripes will loose their sheen,

D A

Black Kettle was their chief, he only wanted peace,

C G

Under the flag...a massacre at Sand Creek.

A C

Wave your flag. Salivate.

G D

Stirring feelings of pride and hate.

A C D

A peace of cloth can't hold your faith.

G D F

No flag flies, no banner waves,

C

See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G D F

No one knows where he lies,

C

and no one know just why he had to die.

D G

D A C G

A banner year 1868, a bitter end a twist of fate.

D A

Maps won't hold this melanoma,

C

Blurry part of Oklahoma,

G

Where Custer shot and killed Black Kettle.

A C

Wave your flag. Salivate.

G D

Stirring feelings of pride and hate.

A C D

A peace of cloth can't hold your faith.

G D F

No flag flies, no banner waves,

C

See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G D F

No one knows where he lies,

C

and no one know just why he had to die.

C F(X2)

G C

A promise is a promise,

G C

A judge of character.

A D A D

His banner over me is love.

G D F C (X4)

G D F

No flag flies, no banner waves,

C

See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G D F

No one knows where he lies,

C

and no one know just why he had to die.

G D F

No flag flies, no banner waves,

C

See the empty pole above his empty grave.

G D F

No one knows where he lies,

C

and no one know just why he had to die.

G