On Wounded Knee - Wrinkle Neck Mules
Track 3 - Apprentice to Ghosts (2012)
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Standard Tuning; power chords (5ths)
[Intro]
E5
(distorted guitar noise)
[VERSE]
E5 G5
Back of the napkin scratch out
D5 A5
The words that I’ve learned
E5 G5
But they don’t come, just cracks and hums
D5 A5
Like nothing I’ve ever heard
E5 G5
No place to stay no fire or rain
D5 A5
No number or ratio
E5 G5 A5
No gauge to give a warning sign
E5 D5 A5
No gauge to give a warning sign
[VERSE]
E5 G5
I guess we all should have known
D5 A5
What the downside might be
E5 G5
As we swore and prayed and stood and gazed
D5 A5
At some beast we never did see
E5 G5
Coming winter’s chill in Charlottesville
D5 A5
With no leg to stand on
E5 G5 A5
That’s about where I draw the line
E5 D5 A5
Yeah, that’s about where I draw the line
[CHORUS]
D5 A5
Scrape off the time elapse
D5 A5
Push myself right up to the collapse
B5 D5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down on wounded knee?
E5 D5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down on wounded knee?
[VERSE]
E5 G5
Well the blood ran down and covered up
D5 A5
Everyone I’ve ever known
E5 G5
With mangled hands and best laid plans
D5 A5
My my haven’t we grown
E5 G5
Back to the mirrors where we can’t hear
D5 A5
The screams and shouts below
E5 G5 A5
Well, I tell you boys it’s about time
E5 D5 A5
Yeah boys it’s about that time
[CHORUS II]
D5 A5
Scrape off the time elapse
D5 A5
Bend and run, under the wires and traps
B5 D5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down on wounded knee?
E5 D5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down on wounded knee?
[SOLO]
E5 G5 D5 A5 x3
E5 G5 A5
E5 D5 A5 E5
[BRIDGE]
E5 D5
There are high towers and deep wells
E5 G5 D5
There are strokes and heart attacks and spells
B5 D5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down on wounded knee?
E5 D5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down on wounded knee?
[CHORUS III]
D5 A5
Scrape off the time elapse
D5 A5
Take the good, and the rest we'll sell for scrap
B5 D5 A5 G5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down on wounded knee?
E5 D5 A5 G5 A5
Will you know me when I’m down
E5 G5 E5
On wounded knee x3
E5 G5 E5 E5 G5 E5 E5 G5 E5
On wounded....... knee
E5 G5 E5 x4