Chords for Crazy Horse - Mickey Free - Deadwood, South Dakota - Nanci Griffith - Eric Taylor

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_ _ _ And on [D] down the road just a little bit from Manhattan, _ _ _ [Gm] a hundred years back down the [G] road,
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_ _ _ in a little [D] town out west in a saloon something like [G] this one,
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_ _ _ _ there was some news from a newspaper clip that made [A] everybody's head turn.
_ _ _ [G] And the concerns of the day weren't much different than [C] they are [G] now,
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_ _ except it [D] was a hundred years ago.
_ _ [G] Well the good times scratched a laugh [Em] from the [G] lungs of the young men
_ [C] in the Deadwood Saloon _ [D] in South Dakota afternoon.
_ _ [G] And the old ones by the door [C] with their heads to their chest,
[C] they told lies about whiskey [D] on a woman's breast.
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_ [D] _ _ [G] Yes and some tell the story _ [Em] of young [G] Mickey Free,
_ [C] who lost an eye to a buck deer [D] in the Tongue River Valley.
_ [G] Oh and some tell the story [C] of California [G] Joe,
who [C] sent word through the Black Hills [D] there was a [G] mountain of [D] gold. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] And the gold she [D] lay cold and [C] never _ gets,
[Em] and the sun she sets down on [C] the tree.
_ _ _ [Em] And they thank [B] the Lord [C] for the _ _ lady man,
[G] well the white [D] man does [C] as he pleases.
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_ _ _ And some flat shoot fool _ [C] from the east comes [D] a running,
_ [C] with some news that he heard _ [D] in some St.
Joseph paper.
_ [G] And it was drinks all around, _ [Em] cause the news he [D] was telling,
[C] was the one they'd called crazy, [D] had been caught and been dealt with. _ _
_ _ _ And the easterner he [F#] read the news from the paper,
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_ [G] _ _ [C] and the old ones gathered closer so they could hear [D] better.
And _ _ [G] it says here that crazy horse [D] was killed while he [Em] was trying to escape.
[G] _ _ [C] And it was sometime last September, and [D] it don't give the exact date.
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_ [D] _ And [Em] the gold she [D] lay cold and [C] never gets,
_ _ [Em] and the sun she sets [G] down on the [C] tree. _
_ _ _ [Em] And they thank the [G] Lord _ [C] _ _
_ for the lady man,
[G] well the white [F#m] man does [C] as he pleases.
[D] _ _ [G] Well the white man [D] does [C] as he pleases.
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_ [G] _ _ And the talk turned back _ _ [Em] to whiskey and [G] women,
_ [C] and cold nights on the plains, [G] _ Lord who fight in those [D] Indians.
_ [G] And the easterner he says he'll have one more before he goes.
_ _ He [C] gives the paper to the crow boy, _ [D] who sweeps up the floor.
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_ _ [Em] And the gold still lay [D] cold in [C] their pockets,
_ _ and [Em] the sun still [D] sets down [C] on their trees.
_ _ [Em] And they thank the [G] Lord,
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and they thank the Lord.
And the lady [G] man, well the white _ [D] man does as [C] he pleases.
[A] _ Well [G] the white _ [D] man does [C] as he pleases.
[D] _ Well [G] the white _ [D] man does [C] as he pleases.
[D] As he wants to, [G] as he pleases.
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Thank you. _ _ _
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