Blue Rodeo is a Canadian country rock band formed in 1984 in Toronto. Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, who have been friends since high school, having both attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute. The pair worked on forming a band after both attended Queen's University at Kingston. They had a few failed attempts and a few adventures before finally coming together with Cleave Anderson, Bazil Donovan, and Bob Wiseman to form Blue Rodeo. Their debut album Outskirts was produced by Terry Brown
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Pine Ridge Written and performed by Greg Keelor with Blue Rodeo >From the Leonard Peltier benefit album "Pine Ridge"
I think this is as close as it comes. Any suggestions on the lyrics or anything else: [email protected]
D-Em-C-G D-Em-C-G
DEmCG Gun squads got whatever they wanted DEmCG On Pine Ridge GG/BCD Dickie Wilson the only law and order GG/F#EmCD Sat back and watched while over 100 were murdered EmBmCD He'd made his bed with the government man CC/BAmD Taking everything he could for himself, his family and GG/BCD friends
GG/BCD And he didn't want those longhairs on his reservation GG/F#EmCD They were always causing trouble and instigating EmBmCD So he waged his war of intimidation CC/BAmDGG/BCD On his poverty stricken reservation
GG/BCD >From ??wounded knees?? to the ??longest walks?? GG/F#EmCD While the government destroys what won^?t be bought EmBmCD When the whites first came to the Black Hills for the gold CC/BAmDG Now the corporations steal the uranium and coal
DEmCG They destroyed the land and the traditional ways DEmCG And you can^?t drink the water, you better not stand in the way DEmCG On Pine Ridge DEmCG On Pine Ridge
EmCDGG/F# This is a song of freedom EmCDGG/F# While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky EmCDGG/F# For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned EmCD This is a song of freedom
GG/BCD GG/BCD
EmEmEmEm
C7 The government man hate the color of your skin and your ?dogshined? Em reservation C7Em No reasons why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red van C7 And the FBI admit Leonard Peltier did not commit the killings that have kept Em him 20 years in prison
C7Em
GDEmC This is a song of freedom
Em
C7Em No explanations why those two FBI were on Oglala land chasing that red van C7 Well maybe because Dickie Wilson was in Washington selling uranium to the Em American nightmare
GFBbC As the people striving 2 FBI were lying dead in a pasture GF Williams and Collier C7 Caught in a crossfire
G7
G7 Dino Butler and ??Bob Roberdobo?? got tried and acquitted G7 And the case against Jimmy Eagle was so weak it never got prosecuted C7 So they set their sights on the last chance of a conviction Eb7D7 with a ??record?? eye-witness and a legal extradition C7 Leonard Peltier had fled across the border to southern Alberta GF The Canadian government was far too eager BbC7 And in awe of their elected copkiller
GG/BCD There's a few that know the truth this morning in Oglala GG/F#EmCD They^?re as silent as the land, as silent as Williams and Collier EmBmCD They^?re as silent as the eagle in the endless blue sky CC/BAmDG They^?re as silent as the sun, she's been watching such a long time
DEmCG Cause it^?s a sacred mind of ???? that's brought to the ????? DEmCG Leonard Peltier's rule divided the land DEmCG And the soldiers came to protect their own DEmCG With the promises of peace and the land that they stole DEmCG And they murdered Crazy Horse killed off the buffalo DEmCG Since yesterday and today and all of tomorrow DEmCG There^?s a silence in the land, there^?s a sadness in the people DEmCG But life goes on, it's the same as it's always done DEmCG On Pine Ridge DEmCG On Pine Ridge
solo (over D-Em-C-G)
EmCDGG/F# This is a song of freedom EmCDGG/F# While the eagle soars in the endless blue sky EmCDGG/F# For the innocent, wrongly imprisoned EmCD This is a song of freedom
GG/BCD CC/BAmDG
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