Chords for Amazing Grace / Rita Coolidge

[Am] A little history behind it so you'll [E] understand what you are hearing.
It's a song, it's [B] the song of Moses' song that was the [Ebm] song of Moses' song on the Trail of Tears,
[A] which was the forced relocation of the Cherokee people along with the Chaco,
which is on the creek and the [Gb] Seminole back in the middle [Am] 1830s.
Andrew Jackson was president [C] and Congress had passed an act called the Indian [Ebm] Removal Act,
which dictated that the five [A] civilized tribes that I just [E] mentioned be relocated into Indian [Db] territory,
which is [Gb] now the state of Oklahoma.
[N] Our chief says that the government of Alabama wanted that property,
[Db] we would never have gotten it so quickly [E] because Indians were [Gm] never put on land,
which we were not [Db] liable for.
[Am] _ _ Because of the [Em] integration of European society and Native society in the mid 1830s,
songs that [E] were sung in white [Gbm] churches were sung in [E] Indian churches [A] in their own languages,
as they are still today.
Cowabunga, Oklahoma, which is the seat of the western band of Cherokee,
and Cherokee, North Carolina, [Em] which is the seat of the eastern [E] band.
[Db] On the Trail of Tears there were many people,
[N] I found this so interesting that there were so many Cherokee people in Texas,
because there [B] were a lot of our people who got into [C] Oklahoma and said,
it's crazy out here with all these wild things.
_ And a lot of our people [A] came on down to Texas, a lot of my grandmother's family were in [Em] Texas.
[Dbm] This song [Eb] was the song [Gb] most loved by the Cherokee people,
[E] the song [B] most [Em] sung on the Trail of Tears.
[Am] When sung in Cherokee still today, it's the Cherokee national anthem. _ _ _ _
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