Las Indigo Girls son un dúo de folk-rock estadounidense formado por Amy Ray y Emily Saliers. Tuvieron su inicio en un acto en el Eddie's Attic y fueron parte de la escena músical que se desarrolló en Athens (en el estado de Georgia), que incluye a otros grupos como The B-52's, Pylon, R.E.M., los Georgia Satellites y Love Tractor.
El grupo se formó en 1985, año en el que editaron el single "Crazy game". En 1987 editaron su primer álbum que se titula "Strange fire".
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Intro: Gm, Am, Dm, Dm x2 (play open 5th string between each Dm)
GmAmDmDm All the fur and fin will lose again GmAmDmDm Cause our better is their worst reckonin' GmCDm (hold) And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed GmAmDmDm And how will we replace that symphony?
FC* I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin BbC* Satisfy my sugar tongue again FC* Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days BbC* Guilded verses for your ethylene FAmBb-Am-Gm-C-Dm And sing ‘em to me free and clean
All the kids come home with foreign limbs Gm, Am, Dm, Dm From hunting trips abroad they lose again Gm, Am, Dm, Dm GmCF* (hold) BbAm-Bb And we'll teach them how to talk and whistle while they walk And do the dirty work of battle hymns Gm, Am, Dm Dm
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin F, C* Satisfy my sugar tongue again Bb, C* Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days F, C* Guilded verses for your ethylene Bb, C* And sing it to me free and clean F, Am (to Gm)
Instrumental over intro chords
Drinking tea with milk and ganjaweed Gm, Am, Dm, Dm Pontificate on genocide or greed Gm, Am, Dm, Dm With a spoonful of descent for the orchestra of need Gm, C, Dm (hold) Is just enough to please this colony Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin F, C* Satisfy my sugar tongue again Bb, C* Bring me lullabies and morphine-dreams F, C* Belladonna with her atropine Bb, C* And sing it to me free and clean F, Am, Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm