Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson por Eliza Gilkyson, tablaturas e acordes no PlayUkuleleNET

Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson

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Eliza Gilkyson (born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950) is an American folk musician based in Austin, Texas. She has been recording and performing her unique blend of folk, country, and other genres since the late 1970s. She is the daughter of the late Terry Gilkyson, an accomplished songwriter noted for music he composed for Disney. She is the sister of Tony Gilkyson, who played with the Los Angeles-based bands Lone Justice and X. She has collaborated with both during the course of her career.

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Eliza Gilkyson - Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson

CAPO: 2nd Fret

INTRO: F C F C

My name is Yvonne Johnson
F C
My native blood is Cree
G C
I'm here to tell the story
F C F C F C
Of the life stolen from me

My grandfather's grandfather was
F C
The great war chief Big Bear
G C
And Flora my grandmother worked
F C
With medicine and prayer

My mother is Saskatchewan
F C
My daddy ex-Marine
G C
And I was just a half-breed
F C
Falling somewhere in between
F C
Somewhere in between

G C
Raised up in a reckless world
G C
Of drugs and alcohol
G C
The police killed my brother, Earl
F G
The only one who cared at all

C
Cleft palate split my face in two
F C
No surgery can repair
G C
I lived in shame and ridicule
F C
Foundations of despair
F C F C F C
Foundations of despair

First memory of my brother, Leon
F C
I was only three
G C
He threw me on the table
F C
Forced himself inside of me

All the kids stood 'round
F C
As I descended into hell
G C
When I told my daddy 'bout it
F C F
Well, he had his way as well, boys
C
He took me down as well

G C
I didn't have a language
G C
For the pain I suffered through
G C
Escaping into marriage
F G
But your past just catches up with you

C
Until I had three children
F C
And a ragged family
G C
A desperate urge to keep them
F C F
From the wolves that got to me, boys
C
Wolves that got to me

INSTRUMENTAL: C F C G C F C F C G C G C G C F
C F C F C

I wish I could forget that night
F C
The way the cards all fell
G C
The deck was stacked against me
F C
And I played my part so well

Three days on the party
F C
In a drunken revelry
G C
Shirley Ann said Chuck had plans
F C
To lure my kids from me
F C
Lure my kids from me

G C
We stuck him with a dagger
G C
And we beat him 'round the head
G C
I unleashed all my anger
F G
And I didn't stop when he was dead

C
They set me up to take the fall
F C
I went down willingly
G C
Now I'm doing life in prison
F C F
While the rest of them run free, boys
C
They're all running free

INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F C F G C

Grandmother, grandmother
F C
Send your prayers to me
G C
Protect me and my children
F C
For I love them endlessly

Creator, creator
F C
I have come alive
G C
Medicine Bear Woman
F C F
Doing life at thirty-five, boys
C
Life at thirty-five

F
I pray, help me to make my amends
C
To those that I have harmed
F
Grant them love and peace so they may
C
Understand I'm sorry

F
Help me share my shame and pain
C
So others they might do the same
F
And so awaken to themselves
C
And to all peoples of this world

OUTRO:
F
Oh, Hai hai, hai hai
C
Ho ho, ho ho
F
Ohh ooh
C
Ohh ooh
F
Ohh ooh
C F C F C F C F C F C F C F C