The New Wild West chords by Jewel

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

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

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
 DmDm
You see the ghosts of the buffalo

Moving both fierce and slow
 D MajorD
Like glittering prophesies

On the edge of the horizon
  DmDm
As you drive glittering highways

And beaten-up by-ways
 D MajorD
That straddle and girdle

A augmentedA great and many-faced nation
 DmDm
You see lambs in the ghettos

Who worship their Gepettos
 D MajorD
Believing in, though never seeing

The strings they think bind them
 DmDm
So you write to our congressmen

With bleeding pens
DmDm
Of the sorrow within

And in return they just send
                    D MajorD
Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show


Chorus:
 FF       G+G     DmDm
Welcome to the new wild west
 FF  G+G      D MajorD
Each man for himself
FF     G+G
Civilized steeples
   C majorC   G+G
And lonely people
 FF       G+G     DmDm
Welcome to the new wild west

Verse 2:
     DmDm
There are so many factions

And cue-card reactions
DmDm
It's hard to keep clear

The possibilities here
              D MajorD
'Cause there's no force to unite them
  DmDm
Privilege has ruled for thousands of years

Wars have been fought with bibles and tears
DmDm
Yet liberation can't deny the temptation
            D MajorD
And soon becomes the oppressor
 DmDm
Show me a leader who's fit to lead

Who don't sow his seed in anything

Wounded enough to breed

Because after all what fun is power
             D MajorD
If you can't act like a rock star?


Chorus:
 FF       G+G     DmDm
Welcome to the new wild west
 FF  G+G      D MajorD
Each man for himself
FF     G+G
Civilized steeples
   C majorC   G+G
And lonely people
 FF       G+G
Welcome to the new-


Instrumental:
A minorAm      FF      G+G
La la da da, la la la la da da x4


Verse 3:
  DmDm
See me, I've been cruel

I've been petty and unkind
DmDm
But I know my own mind

And since it seems clear
DmDm
There's no one leading us here

The only thing left it appears
                    D MajorD
Is to task ourselves to be better each time

Then those before us
   DmDm
We'll be an army of theives

Of self-freed slaves
DmDm
Of mild-mannered maids

We'll fight with whispers and blades
              D MajorD
So get ready, a new day is dawning


Chorus:
 FF       G+G     DmDm
Welcome to the new wild west
 FF  G+G      D MajorD
Each man for himself
FF     G+G
Civilized steeples
   C majorC   G+G
And lonely people
 FF       G+G     DmDm
Welcome to the new wild west

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