Standard (EADGBE)

 No more beautiful moons may we spend on our lands

 In the north the scarlet councils talks of war

 And the long knives have massacred the tribe and burned

corn

 We?re not welcome in our homeland any more

 There will be a trail of tears

 There will be a trail of pain [Em/g]

 And Jackson will have the Missisis ippi and the twenty

 dollar bill

 But for us the trail is all that will re main

 No more songs of the hunters on the buffalo plain

 No more smoke from sacred fires touch these hills

 And the numbers of the people will grow fewer every mile

 And our children will not learn the Great Spirits way

 There will be a trail of tears

 There will be a trail of pain [Em/g]

 And Jackson will have the Missis sippi and the twenty

 dollar bill

 But for us the trail is all that will re main

 On the streets of Rapid City on the road to Wounded Knee

 There is whiskey for for getting every thing

 But the old ones say there may be time from learning from

each other

 The way that it had once been meant to be

 There is still a trail of tears

 There is still a trail of pain [Em/g]

 And Jackson has got the Missis sippi and the twenty

 dollar bill

 But for us the trail of tears re main

 Jackson has got the Missis sippi and the twenty dollar

bill

 But how long will the trail of tears re main

Ken Reynolds