Winter With The Crow
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: BbCapotraste:
3rd traste
Song: Winter with the Crow
Artist: Peter Kosky
Album: Songs of the Allegheny Frontier
[Intro]
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E|--------------------------3--0--0--0--0--0--0--0h2-|
[Verse 1]
G C G
Whitetail in the timber, beaver in the stream
G D C G
Blackfeet on your trail, you can hear their distant screams
G C G
You shiver in the sundown, it's a cold camp tonight
G D C Em
You huddle near your hobbled mules and pray for mornin's light
G C G
Wolves lurk in the shadows, the night's as dark as soot
G D C G
You got your rifle cradled, but it's just too dark to shoot
G C G
And in the early hours, you check your traps again
G D C Em
And you count the season's earnings in the beaver that you skin
C G C G
And your mind will wander back, to that distant home
C G C D
Far across the wide Missouri, a whole lifetime ago
G C G
But you've gone too far and now you can't go back again
G D C Em
And even if you did, no one there would understand
[Chorus]
C Em
That the Nez Perce trade you horses
C Em
Don't get caught by the Sioux alone
C Em
Shoshone let you pass through
C Em
Let you winter with the Crow (x2)
[Verse 2]
G C G
And if you live till Spring, you'll see the rendezvous
G D C G
The voyagers will sing as you ride in with your plews
G C G
It means a whole new outfit, it's powder for your horn
G D C Em
It's new galena lead, it's robes to keep you warm
G C G
And at night around the fire, the boys will tell their tales
G D C G
Broken Hand almost went under, now his top knot's turnin' pale
G C G
And Old Gabe says he'll take you in, and you can join his band
G D C Em
But you're a free trapper, not a hired hand
C G C G
And you gorge yourself on beaver tail and elk ribs while you can
C G C D
For all the starvin' times you thought you'd never eat again
G C G
And you drink the trader's whiskey that you dreamed of for a year
G D C Em
As you lay back in the tall grass Joe B's voice rings in you ear. He say's
[Chorus]
C Em
That the Nez Perce trade you horses
C Em
Flathead let ya come and go
C Em
Beware of Blackfoot warriors
C Em
You can winter with the Crow (x2)
[Verse 3]
G C G
When the rendezvous is over, back to the hills you'll steer
G D C G
Far from the only white men you'll see for most part of the year
G C G
And you learn so many words, from a dozen native tongues
G D C Em
You can talk now with your hands, you can answer with your gun
G C G
And you wonder what you'll do, when the beaver are all gone
G D C G
Is it back East to St. Louis, is it West to Oregon
G C G
Or maybe you'll just settle down and build a trading post
G D C Em
Or slip across the mountains, and over to the coast
C G C G
And it's worth the price of freedom, just to carry on alone
C G C D
Where no man is your master, and the wilderness your home
G C G
In the shadows of the Tetons, where the rivers run so cold
G D C Em
Where the cabin is your castle, and the beaver is your gold
[Chorus]
C Em
The Nez Perce will trade you horses
C Em
Be wise to the Arapaho
C Em
Beware of Pawnee warriors
C Em
You can winter with the Crow (x2)
[Verse 4]
G C G
Now you've seen a thousand sunsets, and greenhorns come and go
G D C G
You've heard thunder on the prairies from the heards of buffalo
G C G
And you found the bones of comrades, with arrows in their spines
G D C Em
Scalplocks hung from lodgepole that you thought you recognized
G C G
You tried to keep your powder dry, when the cold rain settled in
G D C G
Sometimes your tinder wouldn't strike for the howling of the wind
G C G
And you cut your teeth on keelboats, and pack mules in a string
G D C Em
You killed grizzlies at your leen-to, who came prowling in the Spring
C G C G
And all the times you risked your life, for those damn beaver traps
C G C D
So businessmen in London, could wear their fancy hats
G C G
And all the mornings that you nearly froze, just wading in those streams
G D C Em
You're alive now 'cuz you really know just what surviving means
[Chorus]
C Em
The Nez Perce will trade you horses
C Em
Don't get caught by the Sioux alone
C Em
Shoshone let you pass through
C Em
You can winter with the Crow (x2)
[Outro]
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| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
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