Jenny Wind

	  		


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Her father was a man who knew no fences 
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Her mother was a woman of the trail 
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But Jenny Wind was born into a new world 
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When the white man came 


Am                   Em  
Jenny was taught the old ways 
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And she learned to speak her father's tongue 
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When she died, she was one of the last ones 
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And the earth covered up her bones 


Am                    Em  
Jenny Wind was born a wild thing 
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A sister to coyote and the sun 
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But they gave her a dress of calico 
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And they named her Jenny Wind 


        Am                              Em  
But the white man's ways, they followed her 
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She was buried 'neath a marker made of stone 
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And on her grave they carved her pretty name 
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"Here lies the Indian, Jenny Wind" 


Bridge: 
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But they say her soul flies free 
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Caring for the weary and the lost 
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In the forest deep and quiet 
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All around the grave of Jenny Wind 


Am                      Em  
I met Jenny on a summer night 
Am                    Em  
Walking in the Placer County 
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I stumbled on her grave in the forest there 
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So all alone and still 


  Am                           Em  
I wondered if she cared that I found her 
Am                   Em  
Lying so hidden and alone 
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I wondered who she was before they named her 
     G7            C 
"The Indian, Jenny Wind" 


    Am                   Em  
The silence grew till it touched me 
    Am                              Em  
And held me like the words upon the stone 
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And for the first time I was afraid 
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I would not find my way home 


  Am                             Em  
I ran from her as the night grew darker 
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I dropped my glasses and I took a fall 
         F                C 
Lost and blind, somehow I found them 
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Lying folded on her grave so small 


Bridge: 
      F                G7         C 
And I believe that her soul flies free 
       F             G7            C 
And it cares for the weary and the lost 
Am                     F 
In the forest deep and quiet 
     G7                       C 
All around the grave of Jenny Wind