Navajo Fires Chords by Robert Mirabal

So there's nobody here in this room that doesn't walk in two different worlds sometimes even three
There's a world I walk in on this other side.
It has a dance the language and the religion it has a music and the arts
the shrines of the medicine people and the star boys and all these beautiful things and
here's this other world [Db] a world of confusion a world of [Eb] computers a
world of cars and telephones
[Bbm] So much chaos a world that we also [Bb] need now, do you feel that burn of conflict?
[Db] Now, do you feel that burn of conflict?
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] So
There's a next generation coming
Aspen [Eb] Don is four years old now
She looks at me [Bbm] in the world with wonderment and my hope for her and for the [Bb] children of this world
Is that their paths [Db] and their transitions will be just a little bit smoother
[Eb] Their fires will burn their fires of hope [Bbm] fires [Bb] of desire
Fires of love and all these things will never fade away.
Now.
Do you feel that [Db] love?
Now do you feel that [Eb] love?
Come on people do you feel that _ [Bbm] _
_ _ [Bb] love?
[Bb] Cherokee fires are burning [Db] tonight
Cherokee rider is coming [Eb] inside
Take him away
Don't take her [Bbm] away
Let him away
Oh _ [Bb] yeah, you're from O'Wien
[Db] Oh
_ [Eb] Oh yeah, you're from O'Wien
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Oh
_ _ _ So here's this tribe of a [Db] couple thousand people
Nestled in the [Eb] sangre de cristal valley
Language and culture [Bbm] tribal ceremonies intact living there with all [Bb] the demons and all their angels
There's [Db] hope for the future and for the children and I'm [Eb] here because of that hope
And we're sharing and [Bbm] living and giving now.
Do you feel that hope?
[Bb] Now, can you feel that passion?
Now [Db] do you see that hope people?
Come on people [Eb] Scream
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_ _ _ [Bb] House fires are burning [Db] tonight
House riders are coming
Cherokee rider is coming [Eb] inside
Take him away
Don't take her [Bb] away
Let him away
Don't take her away
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