Tabs
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Intro:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---1-1-3-4-3---1----------1-1-1-3-4-1-4--3-1---1-3-------------------------|
G+G|-0-----------3---0----0-0--------------------3-----------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
You think I'm an ignorant savage, and you've been so many places, I guess it must be so.
e|----------------------------------------1-3---6-4-3------------------------|
BB|-3-4-3-1------1-3-4-3-1-----------1-3-4-----4----------3---1---------------|
G+G|---------0-3-------------0-3---3-------------------------3-----------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me, how can there be so much that you don't know? You don't know.
Verse 1:
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BB|-------------3-3-1-3-----------------------3-3-1---------------------------|
G+G|-0---------------------2-------0-------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
You think you own whatever land you on, the earth is just a dead thing you can claim.
e|-0-5-3-3-0-0---------------------0---------0-3---0-------------------------|
BB|-------------3-3-1-3-----------1---3---1-3-----3---------------------------|
G+G|-----------------------2---------------------------2-----------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
But I know every rock and tree and creature, has a life, has a spirit has a name.
Verse 2:
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you.
e|-3-5-3-3-0-0---------------------0-------0---------------------------------|
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G+G|-----------------------2-----------------------2---------------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew, you never knew.
Chorus:
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BB|-------------------3-------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon? Or asked the grinning bobcat why it grins?
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BB|-------------------------1---------1-3-----3-3-1-1---3---------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------2-----------------2-----------------------|
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A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains, can you paint with all the colours of the wind?
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BB|---1-3-----3-3-1---1-1-----------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-2---------------2---------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Can you paint with all the colours of the wind?
Verse 3:
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BB|-------------3-3-1-3-----------------------3-3-1---------------------------|
G+G|-0---------------------2-------0-------------------------------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest, come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth.
e|-0-5-3-3-0-0---------------------0---------0-3---0-------------------------|
BB|-------------3-3-1-3-----------1---3---1-3-----3---------------------------|
G+G|-----------------------2---------------------------2-----------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Come roll in all the riches all around you, and for once, never wonder what they're worth.
Verse 4:
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BB|-------------3-3-1-3-------------------------3-3-1-------------------------|
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A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers, the heron and the otter are my friends.
e|-3-5-3-3-0-0---------------------0----------0------------------------------|
BB|-------------3-3-1-3-----------1---3-1----1---3-1---1-1--------------------|
G+G|-----------------------2--------------------------2------------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
And we are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends.
e|-3---7---5-3-3-5-3---------------0---------0-------------------------------|
BB|--------------------1--------1-3---3-----1---3-3---------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------2-----------2-----------------------------------|
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E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
How high does the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you'll never know.
Chorus:
e|-0-3-8-7-7-5-5-3-0---0---3---5-----3-8-7-7-5-5-3-3-0-3---------------------|
BB|-------------------3-------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, for whether we are white or copper-skinned.
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BB|-------------------------1---------1-3-----3-3-1-1---3---------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------2-----------------2-----------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain, Need to pain with all the colours of the wind.
e|-------0-0-----------0-3-0-3-5---3-5-8-7-5-3-0-----------------------------|
BB|---1-3-----3-3---1-3---------------------------3-1---1---------------------|
G+G|-2-------------------------------------------------2-----------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
You can own the earth and still, all you'll own is earth until
Outro-Oboe:
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BB|-----------3---1-1---------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-------------2-------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|