Elton John – Indian Sunset chords

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As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging


Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepee


Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my woman


For he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leaving

Ebm                                              Ebm9This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead

      Ebm9                Abm\Eb             Ebm7Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns


         Ebm                               Ebm9Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was young

                      Abm\Eb           Ebm9I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums

     Ebm                                             Ebm7I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wild

   Ebm9             Abm\Eb           Ebm9To run the gauntlet of the Sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mine


    Ebm                 And now you ask that I should watch

    Ebm                 Ebm7   Ebm9The red man's race be slowly crushed

     Ebm               Abm\EbWhat kind of words are these to hear

     Ebm9From Yellow Dog whom white man fears


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G      Bm\F#        Em        G\D    C        Am\D            Em  DI take only what is mine Lord,    my pony, my squaw, and my child

G       Bm\F#   Em         G\D  C Am\D                 Em   DI can't stay to see you die      along with my tribe's pride

Am7                    D                   G              C\GI go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sons

          Em7     Am7          G        F6(add9)     Am      G      C(***)Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters run


G         Bm\F#    Em          G\D  C        Am\D                Em  DTrampling down the prairie rose      leaving hoof tracks in the sand

G         Bm\F#   Em       G\D  C  Am\D            Em   D Those who wish to follow me      I welcome with my hands

Am7                  D        G             C\GI heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead

          Em7    Am7      Gsus4  F6(add9)           Am7        Bm7     Em  (Em7\D  Cmaj7)****  EmHe'd been laying down his weapons         when they filled him full of lead_____________________


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Em                 G\D        C              G\BNow there seems no reason why I should carry on

Am7               G\B              C              DIn this land that once was my land I can't find a home

     Em              G\D           C                  G\BIt's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming

      Am                G\B               C                    DAnd I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running

    Em                 G\D          C                  G\BFor soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones

          Am                G\B               C                  DWhere the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of guns


        Em      G\D             C                G\BAnd the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold

    Am            G\B           C                   Em  (Em7\D  Cmaj7  Em)****And peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet ho________________le.

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