Pale Sun Chords by Cowboy Junkies

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_ _ [Gb] 50 miles [Em] from Dakota territory, _ _ [C] _ a giant [D] scalping [G] on [Am] this belt.
_ _ _ _ _ Found him alone, _ [Em] washing in the blue hall.
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_ Steady [Bm] aim and a bag [Am] to scape. _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ Nielsen [D] falls [A] without contest.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Here's a _ beating [A] darkness, _ _ [G] _
_ _ he will not [Am] return. _
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[Am] _ White Cadillac, _ [Em] white man at the wheel.
[G] White [C] faces on [E] the mountain, _ [G] _
[Am] wounds that'll never heal.
_ _ Black clouds overhead, [Em] old man says, looks like rain.
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[C] These roads once [E] stood black in the [G] sun, [Am] says South Dakota, USA.
[E] The _ [Dm] _ rasping stretch of the [Am] horizon, _ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _
not a soul can be [Am] found on it. _ _
[G] _ Mmm, they will not [Am] return.
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_ _ _ Old rusted pickup and a [Em] mad dog in the yard.
_ [C] Purple paint [E] peels but fails to reveal [Am] the bitterness that [A] glows inside.
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_ Cloud of dust in the distance, [Em] strange knock beneath my hood.
_ [C] Better to have words [E] left unsaid than to [Am] have words misunderstood.
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Nielsen falls [Am] without contest. _ _
_ [Dm] _ Here's a beating [Am]
darkness, _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
he will [Am] return.
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I know he will [Am] return.
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