Indian Sunset chords by Elton John

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As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging


Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepee


Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my woman


For he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leaving

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This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead

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Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns


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Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was young

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I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums

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I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wild

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To run the gauntlet of the Sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mine


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And now you ask that I should watch

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The red man's race be slowly crushed

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What kind of words are these to hear

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From Yellow Dog whom white man fears


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I take only what is mine Lord,  my pony, my squaw, and my child

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I can't stay to see you die   along with my tribe's pride

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I go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sons

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Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters run


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Trampling down the prairie rose   leaving hoof tracks in the sand

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Those who wish to follow me   I welcome with my hands

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I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead

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He'd been laying down his weapons     when they filled him full of lead_____________________


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Now there seems no reason why I should carry on

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In this land that once was my land I can't find a home

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It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming

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And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running

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For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones

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Where the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of guns


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And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold

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And peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet ho________________le.