| G | Em | |
| No more | beautiful moons may we | spend on our lands |
| C | D | G | D | |
| In the | north the scarlet | councils talks of | war |
| G | Em | |
| And the | long knives have massacred the | tribe and burned |
| corn |
| C | D | G | |
| We're not | welcome in our | homeland any | more |
| C | D | G | |
| There will be a | trail | of | tears |
| C | D | Em | Em/g | |
| There will be a | trail | of | pain |
| C | G | C | |
| And Jackson will | have the Missisis | ippi and the | twenty |
| G | |
| dollar | bill |
| C | D | G | |
| But for | us the trail is | all that will re | main |
| G | Em | |
| No more | songs of the hunters on the | buffalo plain |
| C | D | G | D | |
| No more | smoke from sacred | fires touch these | hills | |
| G | Em | |
| And the | numbers of the people will grow | fewer every mile |
| C | D | G | |
| And our | children will not | learn the Great Spirits | way |
| C | D | G | |
| There will be a | trail | of | tears |
| C | D | Em | Em/g | |
| There will be a | trail | of | pain | |
| C | G | C | |
| And Jackson will | have the Missis | sippi and the | twenty |
| G | |
| dollar | bill |
| C | D | G | |
| But for | us the trail is | all that will re | main |
| G | Em | |
| On the | streets of Rapid City on the | road to Wounded Knee |
| C | D | G | D | |
| There is | whiskey for for | getting every | thing | |
| G | Em | |
| But the | old ones say there may be time from | learning from |
| each other |
| C | D | G | |
| The | way that it had | once been meant to | be |
| C | D | G | |
| There is still a | trail | of | tears |
| C | D | Em | Em/g | |
| There is still a | trail | of | pain | |
| C | G | C | |
| And Jackson has | got the Missis | sippi and the | twenty |
| G | |
| dollar | bill |
| C | D | G | |
| But for | us the trail of | tears re | main |
| C | G | C | |
| Jackson has | got the Missis | sippi and the | twenty dollar |
| G | |
| bill |
| C | D | G | |
| But how | long will the | trail of tears re | main |
| I have a wide variety of popular artist and |
| venues for audio tape trading. Contact me at |
| < ltwu46B@prodigy.com > and I will e-mail |
| my list to you. |
| Ken Reynolds |
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