Lakota Sioux chords by Matt Fockler

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
A minorAm  FF  A minorAm
E7E7    A minorAm


Verse 1:
A minorAm     G+G    A minorAm
Summer is changing. Fall is in the air.
   FF                A minorAm      G+G
The geese are in migration. You can hear them up there.
A minorAm
The prairie's golden brown. The leaves are falling down.
   FF
The fawns have lost their spots
      A minorAm
and the temperature's dropping down.

Chorus:
E7E7
It was a big day I suppose when the Indians chased the buffalo.
E7E7
Across the prairie in herds they'd go, 'til the blood began to flow
        A minorAm
and they went down.


Verse 2:
A minorAm
We ain't got no time, no waste no time.
     FF               A minorAm
We got a lot of lives we got to keep in line.
A minorAm
Pretty soon the snow's gonna fly.
A minorAm
You don't feed them, your people gonna die.


Chorus:
E7E7
It was a big day I suppose when the Indians chased the buffalo.
E7E7
Across the prairie in herds they'd go, 'til the blood began to flow
        A minorAm
and they went down.


Verse 3:
A minorAm
They like to paint their face. They like to paint their paints.
        FF             A minorAm
They like to decorate everything up and celebrate.
A minorAm
They like to congregate in a beautiful place,
FF                       A minorAm
dress themselves in feathers and leathers and dream their fates.

Chorus:
E7E7
So it was a big day I suppose when the Indians chased the buffalo.
E7E7
Across the prairie in herds they'd go, 'til the blood began to flow
        A minorAm
and they went down.


Verse 4:
A minorAm
Then the cavalry came to take their land away.
       FF                   A minorAm
Hell, they lied and died and lost every battle but got their way.
A minorAm
Then they took their souls when they took the buffalo.
     FF                       A minorAm
And they took their families blankets riddled with the pox, and so


Chorus:
E7E7
it was a big day I suppose when Custer went in for the close
E7E7
and found himself with his pants down as the Indians rode around
       A minorAm
and took him down.


Verse 5:
A minorAm
We ain't got no time, no to waste no time.
     FF           A minorAm
We got a lot of lives we got to keep in line.
A minorAm
Pretty soon the snow's gonna fly.
A minorAm
You don't feed them, your people gonna die.


Chorus:
E7E7
It was a big day I suppose when the Indians chased the buffalo.
E7E7
Across the prairie in herds they'd go, 'til the blood began to flow
        A minorAm
and they went down.