Bury My Heart

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:27:39 -0600 (CST) 
From: Casey Connor  
Subject: CRD: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as done by Indigo Girls 
 
 
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee 
W&M by Buffy St. Marie, 
as covered by the Indigo Girls. 
 
Another four-chord song transcribed by guitar GOD [email protected], 
with help with the words from indigo-girls listmembers. 
 
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"Emily": (sing freely) 
 
D                           A 
Indian Legislation's on the desk of a do-right congressman 
 
D                                G 
But he don't know much about the issues so he 
 
A         
picks up the phone and asks the advice of the 
 
D              Bm 
senator out in Indian Country, a 
 
G              A 
darling of the energy companies 
 
        Bm                  G           A 
They're ripping off what's left of the reservation 
 
 
"Amy": (with more rhythm) 
 
             A                           Bm 
I learned this safety rule I don't know who to thank 
 
            A                F#m             Bm 
don't stand between the reservation and the corporate bank 
 
               A                       F#m                 Bm 
They're sendin federal tanks, it isn't nice, but it's reality 
 
Chorus: 
 
(no chord)              D       C   G 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 
 
                         D   C   G 
I said deep in the earth 
 
                            D            C   G 
Won't you cover me with your pretty lies 
 
                        D     C   G 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 
 
 
               A                                 Bm 
They got these energy companies they're tryin to steal our land 
                           (or: who want to take our land) 
 
         A                  F#m         Bm 
They got churches by the dozen tryin to guide our hand 
 
A                                   (F#m          Bm 
and turn our mother earth over to pollution war and greed 
 
Get rich, get rich quick 
 
CHORUS (With echoing BMHAWK's?) 
 
"Jerry Marotta": 
 
We've got the federal books, we've got the covert spies 
         (or: federal marshals) 
They got the liars by fire they got the FBI 
They go to court and get nailed and still Leonard Peltier goes off to jail 
 
The bullets didn't match the gun 
 
CHORUS (With echoing BMHAWK's - "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; It was an  
eigth of the reservation; It was transferred in secret; You got your   
murdering heart and intimidation; Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee") 
(or: you got your murder and intimidation, etc...) 
 
We're talking about a revolution 
 
My girlfriend Anna May, she talked about Uranium 
Her head was full of bullets and her body dumped 
The FBI cut off her hands and told us she died of exposure 
 
CHORUS 
 
Bury me Bury me 
 
We had the gold rush wars, why didn't we learn to crawl? 
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl. 
They tell me 
 
{No Chord} 
 
Honey you can still be an Indian, I mean, you know, wear those little 
moccasins and play those bingo games down at the Y on a Saturday night. 
("Bullshit", except I think Amy says "Right" on CompG's) 
 
And they should... 
CHORUS ("...You're going to cover me with your pretty lies...") 
 
CHORUS ("...It's an eigth...etc...heart and intimidation...") 
 
'Bury my heart' repeated at end. 
 
First voice stays on low D, second does "Bur" and "heart" on F and "y my" on  
E, third does "Bur" and "heart" on A and "y my" on G, and a last voice  
can do the high D for "Bur" and "heart" and C for "y my" so it's: 
 
 
Dm  C/D  Dm 
Bur y My Heart 
 
repeated over and over again. This is pretty much a guess and may be an  
approxiamtion of the actual sining or may embellish it. Whatever. You  
might try tuning the low E to D and playing the normal D and then C  
chords over it with the open bass string allowed to ring. 
 
Notes: For the verse, I think the F#m's are sometimes there and sometimes  
not. And listen to the recording for the syncopated strumming pattern.  
It's kooky. 
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