Elton John - Indian Sunset Chords & Tabs

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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

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This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead

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Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns


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Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was young

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I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums

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

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To run the gauntlet of the Sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mine


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And now you ask that I should watch

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The red man's race be slowly crushed

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What kind of words are these to hear

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From Yellow Dog whom white man fears


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

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

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I 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  D
Trampling down the prairie rose      leaving hoof tracks in the sand
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G         Bm\F#   Em       G\D  C  Am\D            Em   D 
Those who wish to follow me      I welcome with my hands

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I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead

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


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Am Am Am G G G Am Am Am G G G Am  Am

Em  Em  Em  G\E  G\E Em  G\E  Em  G\E  Em  Em  Em

Am Am Am G G G Am Am Am G G G Am  Am  Am

(D7\A  Am(add9)  D7\A  Em  G\D  Em)*****


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Now there seems no reason why I should carry on

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In this land that once was my land I can't find a home

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It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming

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And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running

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For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones

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Where the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of guns


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And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold

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And peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet ho________________le.

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