🎸 Wake Up Navajo chords by Kenny Young

Wake Up Navajo
Kenny Young
From: Last Stage For Silverworld (1973)

| G | G |

G          Am
Honey dew dawn came tiptoein' 'round
D           C     G
Glowin' and glitterin' wakin' our eyes
    G   Am
Navajo child sweet night is gone
    D            C     G  | G |
But the nectar of love is still lingerin' on

G > Am                 (Am - B - C)
  . Did you sleep alright last night?
       C       G
   Do your dreams like a river flow?
G > Am       G  F    Am    C     D
  . Did you hear the hooting owl call, . "Wake up Navajo"?

G      C  D      G  G/F#
Nah na-na-na nah, wake up Navajo
Em            C
Light me a bright new horizon
C         D
Shining out as we roll along
G      C  D      G  G/F#
Nah na-na-na nah, wake up Navajo
Em        C
Roll me an Indian morning
D         C   | C |
Sing me an Indian song

| G | G |

G          Am
Pintos and paint up prairie land bound
D           C    G
Shinin' and shimmerin' getaway eyes
      G      Am
Follow the clouds that cover the plains
     D         C    G
Won't you ride us away to a happier day

G > Am                 (Am - B - C)
  . Did you sleep alright last night?
       C       G
   Do your dreams like a river flow?
G > Am       G  F    Am    C     D
  . Did you hear the hooting owl call, . "Wake up Navajo"?

G      C  D      G  G/F#
Nah na-na-na nah, wake up Navajo
Em            C
Light me a bright new horizon
C         D
Shining out as we roll along
G      C  D      G  G/F#
Nah na-na-na nah, wake up Navajo
Em        C
Roll me an Indian morning
D         C   | C |
Sing me an Indian song

| Am | Am | C | G | Am | F | C | D |

G      C  D      G  G/F#
Nah na-na-na nah, wake up Navajo
Em            C
Light me a bright new horizon
C         D
Shining out as we roll along
G      C  D      G  G/F#
Nah na-na-na nah, wake up Navajo
Em        C
Roll me an Indian morning
D         C   | C |
Sing me an Indian song

©1973 Kangaroo Music
Charted by Dexex

Note: In the recording I have, the whole song is a little sharp. If
you play along with the recording on a guitar tuned with a digital
tuner you'll find the chords in the chart just a little low. If you
play the song a half step higher you'll find the half step is too
high.

I suspect that the record's producers wanted a little more energy
from the track, and so sped it up just a little. Speeding up the
track would also make it just a little bit higher in pitch. This was
not an unusual practice when the track was recorded in 1973.

To test my theory I used iRehearse, which is a digital phrase trainer
that allows you to change the pitch and/or tempo of digital sound
files. (It's a great rehearsal tool.)

By lowering the pitch about 1/2 semi-tone (aka -50 "cents") I was
able to bring the recording back into perfect tune.