Big Foot
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: BbCapotraste:
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From the album "America: A 200-Year Salute In Story & Song" (1972)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/VHVthNxMRgs?si=WlfOuks3pYWepxHq
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/1efUjIw5XZ3yGSTZzvs1v0?si=eccdcae6ab2b49ba
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[Spoken]
| Am Am/E | Am Am/E | Am Am/E | Am Am/E |
Am Am/E Am Am/E Dm Dm/A Dm Dm/A Am
But the land was already claimed by a people when the cowboy came and when the
Am/E Am
soldiers came
N.C.
The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways a story of tragedy
N.C.
Like that day at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
[Intro]
| D | A | E7 | A | A |
[Verse 1]
A D
Big Foot was an Indian chief of the Minneconjou band
E7 D A
A band of Minneconjou Sioux from South Dakota land
A D
Big Foot said to Custer "Stay away from Crazy Horse"
E7 D A
But Custer crossed into Sioux land and he never came back across
A D
Then Big Foot led his people to a place called Wounded Knee
E7 D A
And they found themselves surrounded by the 7th Cavalry
[Chorus]
D A E7 A
Big chief Big Foot, rise up from your bed
D A D A
Minneconjou babies cry for their mothers lying dead
[Verse 2]
A D
Big Foot was down with a fever when he reached Wounded Knee
E7 D A
And his people all were prisoners of the 7th Cavalry
A D
Two hundred women and children and another hundred men
E7 D A
Raised up a white flag of peace but peace did not begin
A D
An accidental gunshot and Big Foot was first to die
E7 D A
And over the noise of the rifles you could hear the babies cry
[Chorus]
D A E7 A
Big chief Big Foot, it's good that you can't see
D A D A
Revenge is being wrought by Custer's 7th Cavalry
[Verse 3]
A D
Then smoke hung over the canyon on that cold December day
E7 D A
All was death and dying around where Big Foot lay
A D
Farther on up the canyon some had tried to run and hide
E7 D A
But death showed no favorites, women, men, and children died
A D
One side called it a "massacre", the other a "victory"
E7 D A
But the white flag is still waving today at Wounded Knee
[Chorus]
D A E7 A
Big chief Big Foot, your Minneconjou band
D A D A
Is more than remembered here in South Dakota land
D A E7 A
Big chief Big Foot, your Minneconjou band
D A D A
Is more than remembered here in South Dakota land
[Outro]
| A D | A |
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