Bury My Heart by Indigo Girls guitar tab (text):

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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 casey@cec.wustl.edu,

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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