Chords for Shadow Over Sisterland - John Trudell

_ Heya, _ heyo, heya, heyo, heya, we are on our heel-o.
Heyo, heya, waya, waya, hey-ho.
_ Heya, heyo, heya, heyo, heya, sister, the time is now.
Heya, heya, waya, waya, hey-ho. _ _ _ _
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_ There's a [C] shadow over Sister Lynn,
[G]
With a Smith and Thomas [C] pointed at her head.
[G]
Pointed [F] at her head.
[C] Money and authority [G]
have their own way of [C] talking.
Their own way of [G] talking.
When it comes [Em] to the man versus [G] what the woman [B] said.
[Em] Versus what the [F] woman said.
[G]
There's a shadow.
[Em] _ [D] There's a [G] shadow.
_ There's [Em] a shadow.
There's a shadow [Eb] over [D] Sister Lynn.
[Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ Somewhere, [C] _ _ sometimes, [G] a woman lives the memory [C] of the little girl's pain.
[G]
Dragging through the mind.
[C] Dragging through the mind.
[G]
Every [D] day a [C] compromise just to do the time.
[G]
Just to do the time.
[Em] Silence is a mask.
[G]
Silence is a [Em] mask.
When [F] nothing can be [G] said.
When nothing [Em] can be said.
[F] There's a [G]
shadow.
There's [Em] a shadow.
[Eb] There's [D] a shadow [A] over Sister [Dm] Lynn.
_ _ [D]
God escaped the chalice.
[C] _ _ [A] Dominator [D] made the plate.
God [G] slew the [F] serpent.
[D] And the woman's bed was made.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Tethers of chains.
_ [G] Tethers of jewels.
_ [D] _
[C] Economic bondage runs by those [G] rules.
[D] The laws of [C] justice are [F] business [G] decisions.
Gender and class [C]
cut with surgical precision.
[G] _ Religious definition [Em] and the [D] politics of man.
[G] Church and state [A] together.
[Em] Hands in hand.
[G] There's a shadow.
_ _ [Em]
There's a [D] shadow.
_ [G] _ There's a shadow [Em] _
[Eb] over Sister [D] Lynn.
_ [A] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ Mother [C] Earth as goddess.
[G] This woman [D] meets [C] the God of men.
_ [G] Violent [D] prayers.
_ [C]
Rationalizing madness.
_ [G] [D] Partnership comes [C] to an end.
_ _ [G] Landlords.
[A] _ _ [B]
Landlords.
[F] _ _ [G] Landlords.
[A] _ _ [C]
Ownership prevails.
[G] _ [F] Ownership prevails.
[C]
Ruling [F] class industrial [G] man.
[A] Ruling class [C] industrial man.
[D] Ruling [G] class industrial [A] man.
_ [Em]
There's a [C] shadow.
[G] There's [D] a shadow. _
_ There's [G] a shadow [F] over [Em] Sister Lynn.
_ [D] God [G] _ escaped his shell.
[C] _
_ Dominator made [G] the plague.
_ [F] God [Em] slew the [F] serpent.
And the [G] woman's bed was [F] made.
[C] There's a [F] shadow.
_ [G] There's a [A] shadow.
[C] _
[F] There's a [G] shadow [F] over Sister [C] Lynn.
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _