G D
No more beautiful moons may we spend on our land
C D G
In the north, the scarlet council talks of war
G D
And the long knives have massacred the tribe and burned cold
C D G
We're not welcome in our homeland anymore
G D
No more songs of the hunters on the buffalo plain
C D G
No more smoke from sacred fires touch these hills
G D
And the numbers of the people grow fewer every mile
C D G
And our children will not learn the Great Spirit's ways
C G
There will be a trail of tears
C Em
There will be a trail of pain
C G D Em
And Jackson will have the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
C D G
But for us the trail is all that will remain
G D
On the streets of rapid City On the road to Wounded Knee
C D G
There is whiskey for forgetting everything
G D
But the old ones say there may be time for learning from each other
C D G
The way that it had once been meant to be
C G
There will be a trail of tears
C Em
There will be a trail of pain
C G D Em
And Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
C D G
But for us the trail of tears remains
C G D Em
And Jackson's got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
C D G
But how long will the trail of tears remain