In My Tribe chords by Cathie Ryan

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
A minorAm

Verse 1:
      E minorEm    A minorAm
In Monument Valley we ride
       E minorEm   A minorAm   G+G
Myself and my Navajo guide
  FF             E7E7
I'm moved by the majesty that lives here in this place
      A minorAm      E minorEm      A minorAm
His native home, the dry desert of his race

Verse:
          E minorEm       A minorAm
I don't know these mesas or these lands
             E minorEm         A minorAm  G+G
Like the fields my mother ploughed beside her dad
   FF             E7E7
And I hold every story that her father told to me
 A minorAm    E minorEm       A minorAm
As dear as myths of the Anasazi

Verse:
        E minorEm        A minorAm
We ride on and sing our peoples' songs
            E minorEm       A minorAm   G+G
From roots that run as deep as they do long
   FF             E7E7
And although I was born here and raised in this nation
       A minorAm      E minorEm    BB
The blood is strong in the first generation

Instrumental:
C majorC  E minor 7Em7  FF E minor 7Em7 A minorAm
C majorC  E minor 7Em7  FF E minor 7Em7 FF

Verse:
  A minorAm     E minorEm      A minorAm
My grandmother swept a dirt floor
       E minorEm     A minorAm
As the Navajo did here before
  FF           E7E7
Kayenta and Kerry may be wide water apart
      A minorAm     E minorEm        A minorAm
But we're alike in the deep core of the heart

Verse:
         E minorEm       A minorAm
I've seen the sun set at The Sun's Eye
          E minorEm    A minorAm
Left an echo in The Hogan nearby
 FF             E7E7
A augmentedA song of my people that my mother gave to me
      A minorAm    E minorEm    A minorAm
In my tribe music is blood memory
A minorAm    E minorEm    FF
Music is blood memory

Outro:
C majorC  E minor 7Em7  FF E minor 7Em7 A minorAm
C majorC  E minor 7Em7  FF E minor 7Em7 A minorAm