Chords for Pura Fé - Rise Up Tuscarora Nation

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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Bb] _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [B] Many times the [C] moral people [D] invaded the [A] South and East
_ [C] Caught by the [Gm]
exploitation of sovereign grand [F]
disease
_ [A] _ Those [C] who escaped, [D] removed [A] and savored me
Survived the [G] years by sacrificing _ [Bb] tribal identity
_ _ _ [A] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [A] _
Pushed [C] to the borders _ [D] of counties and [E] state _ [C] lines
Back [G] hills of storm-blown _
_ [Bb] _ pit pines
[A] Free people [C] on the cover of [D] war history [B] papers
The people were the ones who were killed
[C] Know him, the [G]
inmate, _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A]
he's stand up
_ _ _ [C] _
Rise [G] up, to [A] the world of _ [E] evasion
_ [A] I'm gonna stand up [B] and
Been on [C] the _ _ [G] cross for all the people
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ Have [A] authorities [C] holding them now
[D] Missionaries take [A] control
_ _ [C] Send Christ [G] around and say that you washed [Bb] away the natal soil
_ [A] You washed away [D] the language, but who they [A] are, yes
[E] So [G]
generations that are laughing at the truth but don't [Bb] recognize the [C] style
_ [G] Shame, denial, [C] disbelief, lost [D]
stories, the [A] unknown memories
_ [C] _
Subject of the [G] _ ridicule, [Bb] cross the red, nigga, [F] every blues
Not [A]
everyone _ [C] forgets, old [D] spirits come back
Good and [A] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] ugly fight again, [Fm] down again
_ [A]
Trying to [C] get back [D] what's been lost or taken
_ [C] _
Back [G] hands, jealous, I will [Bb] sweep to rise up [F] and take it
I [B] pray he'll stand up and
_ _ [C] _ Rise [G] up, just for our [B] one nation
[E] _
I'm [A] gonna stand up and
_ _ [C] _ Rise [G] up, just for all [A] the people
[E] _
_ _ _ Well, [Am] it's true that through the years, [D]
runaways have [A] found
_ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] Accepting other lineage [Bb] and race became [F] quite a [Em] whole _
[E] _ [C] Still there are the people, [D]
indigenous [A] to the land
[C] Well, they fight [G] for recognition, [Bb] break-ending country [F] understands _
[A] Don't need fair [C] or direct nation, [D] no handouts [A] from the man
_ [C] _
_ [G] Prey on their desperation, [Bb] make dependence of this [F] greedy plan
[A] This dirty [C] ecology, _ [D] behind the quantum [E] man, yes _
[C] Slice [G] and dice, government aid, [D] cut half the people and [F] divide the [G] land
And [E] don't sell out for [C] his disease, [E] he'll slowly kill you [B] once again
[C] You survive so long [G] trying to be free, [Bb]
fight the power with the [C] sovereignty _
I pray he'll stand up [Em]
and
[C] Rise _ [G] up, just for our [A] one nation
[G] _
_ I'm gonna stand up [E] and
_ _ [C] _ Rise [G] up, just for all [A] the people
_ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Am] 150 years ago [D] was the last to saw the [B] hidden escape
[C] _ In them [G] war pens and treasure [Bb] spots to the north, the [F] underground, the [G] railroad
_ Oh, in the [C] Oakland, Canada's borders, [D] a few got up to the [E] northern kin
[C] Tens of thousands stayed [G] hidden, slaved on town
[Bb] While north they couldn't hear [F] a scream or shout
[Am] Oh, fuck your homelands [C] and money, [D] southern heart, they're clubbed in [B] north cash
There [C] ain't nothing you can say [G] or do about it, [Bb] cause
It's recession, don't exist, [Am] 50, 60 thousand _
_ _ [D] Genocide, recreate tribal names, [C] as the state digs up your [G]
ancestors
[Bb] They'll deny your [F] tribal name, [E] but the
_ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] Cash you are, the land you [C] save, will to honor the future [Gm]
generations
You must [Bb] honor the stories
[F] _ _ I pray [A] he'll stand [E] up and
_ _ [C] _ _ Rise _ [D] _ up, just [G] for our one nation
_ [E] _ I'm gonna stand up [Bb] _ _ and
Rise up, _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ just for all the people _ _ _
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