Текст песни с аккордами
Вступление
From the album "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" (1966)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/bTqV1pnQoos
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jym4Lq3eVknYO4ifcokW4?si=9d6bb4f319a04ca0
Capo on 4th fret. If you want to play without capo, you can set the "Transpose" button on +4.
[Verse 1]
G E7 D G
Now that your big eyes have finally opened
Am F Am F
Now that you're wondering "how must they feel?"
D G E7 D G
Meaning them that you've chased across America's movie screens
Am F Am F
Now that you're wondering "how can it be real?"
D G E7 D G
That the ones you've called colorful, noble and proud
Am F Am F
In your school propaganda, they starve in their splendor
D G E7 D G
You've asked for my comment, I simply will render
G D G C G F D G
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying
[Verse 2]
G E7 D G
Now that the longhouses breed superstition
Am F Am F
You force us to send our toddlers away
D G E7 D G
To your schools where they're taught to despise their traditions
Am F Am F
Forbid them their languages, then further say
D G E7 D G
That American history really began
Am F Am F
When Columbus set sail out of Europe and stress
D G E7 D G
That the nation of leeches that conquered this land
Am F Am F
Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best
D G E7 D G
And yet where in your history books is the tale
Am F Am F
Of the genocide basic to this country's birth
D G E7 D G
Of the preachers who lied, how the Bill of Rights failed
Am F Am F
How a nation of patriots returned to their earth?
D G E7 D G
And where will it tell of the Liberty Bell
Am F Am F
As it rang with a thud over Kinzua mud
D G E7 D G
And of brave Uncle Sam in Alaska this year?
G D G C G F D G
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying
[Verse 3]
G E7 D G
Hear how the bargain was made for the West
Am F Am F
With her shivering children in zero degrees
D G E7 D G
Blankets for your land, so the treaties attest
Am F Am F
Oh well, blankets for land is a bargain indeed
D G E7 D G
And the blankets were those Uncle Sam had collected
Am F Am F
From smallpox-diseased dying soldiers that day
D G E7 D G
And the tribes were wiped out and the history books censored
Am F Am F
A hundred years of your statesmen have felt it's better this way
D G E7 D G
And yet a few of the conquered have somehow survived
Am F Am F
Their blood runs the redder, though genes have paled
D G E7 D G
From the Grand Canyon's caverns to craven sad hills
Am F Am F
The wounded, the losers, the robbed sing their tale
D G E7 D G
From Los Angeles County to upstate New York
Am F Am F
The white nation fattens while others grow lean
D G E7 D G
Oh, the tricked and evicted, they know what I mean
G D G C G F D G
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying
[Verse 4]
G E7 D G
The past it just crumbled, the future just threatens
Am F Am F
Our life blood shut up in your chemical tanks
D G E7 D G
And now here you come, bill of sale in your hands
Am F Am F
And surprise in your eyes that we're lacking in thanks
D G E7 D G
For the blessings of civilization you've brought us
Am F Am F
The lessons you've taught us, the ruin you've wrought us
D G E7 D G
Oh see what our trust in America's brought us
G D G C G F D G
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying
[Verse 5]
G E7 D G
Now that the pride of the sires receives charity
Am F Am F
Now that we're harmless and safe behind laws
D G E7 D G
Now that my life's to be known as your heritage
Am F Am F
Now that even the graves have been robbed
D G E7 D G
Now that our own chosen way is a novelty
Am F Am F
Hands on our hearts we salute you your victory
D G E7 D G
Choke on your blue white and scarlet hypocrisy
Am F Am F
Pitying the blindness that you've never seen
D G E7 D G
That the eagles of war whose wings lent you glory
Am F Am F
They were never no more than carrion crows
D G E7 D G
Pushed the wrens from their nest, stole their eggs, changed their story
Am F Am F
The mockingbird sings it, it's all that she knows
D G E7 D G
"Ah what can I do?" say a powerless few
Am F Am F
With a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye
D G E7 D G
Can't you see that their poverty's profiting you
G D G C G F D G
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying
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