Johnny Cash - Drums guitar chord

DRUMS

Writer: Peter LaFarge

Recorded by: Johnny Cash

Album: Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian

Key of G

G

From the Indian reservation

G C G

To the governmental school

G C G

Well they're goin' to educate me

G D

To the white men's Golden Rule

D G

And I'm learning very quickly

G C G

For I've learned to be ashamed

G C G

And I come when they call Billy

G D G

Though I've got an Indian name

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G

And there are drums beyond the mountain

G C G

Indian drums that you can't hear

G C G

There are drums beyond the mountain

G D G

And they're getting mighty near

And when they think that they'd changed me

Cut my hair to meet their needs

Will they think I'm white or Indian

Quarter blood or just half breed

Let me tell you Mister Teacher

When you say you'll make me right

In five hundred years of fighting

Not one Indian turned white

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Well you thought that I knew nothing

When you brought me here to school

Just another empty Indian

Just America's first fool

But now I can tell you stories

That are burnt and dried and old

But in the shadow of their telling

Walks the thunder proud and bold

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Long Pine and Sequoia

Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull

There's Magnus Colorado

With his sleeves so red and full

Crazy Horse the legend

Those who bit off Custer's soul

They are dead yet they are living

With the great Geronimo

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Well you may teach me this land's history

But we taught it to you first

We broke your hearts and bent your journeys

Broken treaties left us cursed

Even now you have to cheat us

Even though you this us tame

In our losing we found proudness

In your winning you found shame

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