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🎸 Intro: Gm E ---------3-------- B -----1-3---3b-1--- G -Oh2------------2- D ------------------ A ------------------ E ------------------ Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm 🎸 Verse: Gm Gm Gm Gather round the fire boys, a story I will tell Gm Gm About a persecution I’m sure you don’t know well Gm Gm An Oklahoma tale of trading land and gems Gm Gm Gm Goin’ down a river that you can’t come back up again
Gm Gm Gm Anna Brown was killed in May of ‘21 Gm Gm They made it look like Anna was just having too much fun Gm Gm Meanwhile, in town they threw a big parade Gm Gm There stood William Hale and the range war that he waged 🎸 Instrumental: Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm 🎸 Verse: Gm Gm Gm Just across the county on that very day Gm Gm In a pool of blood did Charles Whitehorn lay Gm Gm Charles was Anna’s cousin, so was Henry Roan Gm Gm Gm Who died shortly after William Hale made him a loan Gm Gm Gm William Hale had him a nephew who’d married Molliе Kyle Gm Gm Mollie was Anna’s sister and it sunk in aftеr a while Gm Gm In cities across the country all the papers read Gm Gm “Reign of Terror Continues, Another Indian Dead” 🎸 Instrumental: Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm 🎸 Verse: Gm Gm Gm Ol’ Hickory Andrew Jackson drove ‘em down through Tennessee Gm Gm From Ohio came the Osage, the mountains, Cherokee Gm Gm They left ‘em there to wither on that southern Kansas soil Gm Gm Gm But this was before the man discovered oil Gm Gm Gm If you come around here with pretty flowers to sow Gm Gm You might stop and notice nobody’s very old Gm Gm Grass grows so high it covers up the graves Gm Gm Listen for a while and it might start givin’ names 🎸 Outro: G Gm They called him the King of the Osage Hills C Gm He went and got everybody killed G Gm Now they talk about the weather like it’s judgment coming soon Cm Gm Gm For the Killers of the Flower Moon Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm
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