Johnny Cash - Apache Tears guitar chord

Apache Tears

By Johnny Cash

C G C F

Hoof prints and foot prints, deep ruts the wagons made

C G C G

The victor and the loser came by here

C G C F

no head stones but these bones bring Mascalero death moans

C F G C

see the smooth black nuggets by the thousands laying here

C F G C

petrified but justified are these Apache tears

C G C F

Dead grass, dry roots, hunger crying in the night

C G C G

Ghost of broken hearts and laws are here

C G C F

And who saw the young squaw they judged by their whiskey law

C G C

Tortured till she died of pain and fear

C F G C

Where the soldiers lay her back are the black Apache tears

C G C F

The young men, the old men, the guilty and the innocent

C G C G

Bled red blood and chilled alike with fear

C G C F

The red men, the white men, no fight ever took this land

C G C

So don't raise the dust when you pass here

C F G C

They're sleeping and in my keeping are these Apache tears