Chords for Charlie Parr - 1890 (Live on The Local Show 8/8/10)

[D] _ _ _ _ _ Yeah, well, I'm not very good at titling songs, David, and it [G] helps me delineate which song's
which, if I [Gb] give some kind of [D] name to it.
_ They all have to do with the year about which the event happened that inspired the particular song there.
[Gb] This one's 1890.
1890.
What happened in [Gm] this story?
It was the massacre at Wounded Knee [A] happened that year.
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_ _ I [Bb] was in the burial party, went back to Wounded Knee.
[D] _ Rock hammers and ice picks to chip the dead ones free.
[G] After the [Em] massacre and the blizzard, they'd been frozen to the ground.
_ [D] Mothers and children and warriors, we found them all around.
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[Bb] They'd been frozen in their agony or shock and terror as [A] they fled the army's [D] giant howitzers
that sang their song of death.
We [G] found Chief Bigfoot, his scarf around his face, and [D] the ice was frozen blood from his
neck down to his waist.
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_ _ _ [Bb] Bloody footprints in the snow, did the ghost dance for the dead, [D] and I hoped that it was
true, what all the legends said, [A] that there'll be a new [G] spring coming and our families will
come home, [D] and game will fill the prairies and the crops will always grow.
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_ _ We [Bb] wrapped the bodies in red blankets and placed them on a sled [D] and left their stacked
up rifles and everything they had.
[Em] Crazy [G] horse was buried here, someone said as we were due to start.
[D] Just his heart, I told him, it's only just his heart.
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