Kunci Gitar My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying 
Buffy Sainte-marie 
N/A6 dilihat
Kunci: C# minor•
Verse 1
B
G#
Now that your big eyes
C#m
A
Now that you're wondering,
C#m
A
How must they feel?
B
G#
Meaning them that you've chased
B
cross America's movie screens
C#m
A
Now that you're wondering,
How can it be real?
B
That the ones you've called colorful,
G#
F#
noble and proud
B
C#m
In your school pro paganda
A
C#m
A
They starve in their splendor
B
G#
You've asked for our comment,
B
F#
B
My country 'tis of thy
F#
B
people you're dy ing
Verse 2
B
G#
Now that the longhouse
F#
B
s breed superstition
C#m
A
You force us to send our
C#m
A
toddlers away
B
To your schools where they're
G#
F#
B
taught to despise their traditions
C#m
A
Forbid them their languages
C#m
A
B
Then further say that American
G#
F#
B
history really began
C#m
A
When Colum bus set sail out
C#m
A
of Europe and stress
B
G#
That the nation of leeches
F#
B
that's conquered this land
C#m
A
C#m
Are the biggest and bravest and boldest,
B
G#
And yet where in your his
F#
B
tory books is the tale
C#m
A
Of the genocide basic to
C#m
A
this country's birth?
B
G#
Of the preachers who lied?
F#
B
How the Bill of Rights failed?
C#m
A
How a nation of patriots re
C#m
A
turned to their earth?
B
G#
F#
B
And where will it tell of the Liberty Bell
C#m
A
As it rang with a thud over
C#m
A
Kinzua mud?
B
G#
And of brave Uncle Sam
F#
B
in Alaska this year?
F#
B
My country 'tis of thy
E
B
A
B
people you're dying
Verse 3
B
G#
Hear how the bargain was
F#
B
made for the West
C#m
A
With her shiv ering children in
C#m
A
F#
zero degrees
B
G#
F#
Blankets for your land, so the treaties attest
B
C#m
A
Oh well, blankets for land,
C#m
A
is a bargain indeed
B
G#
And the blankets were those Uncle
F#
B
Sam had collected
C#m
A
From smallpox diseased dying
C#m
A
sol diers that day
B
G#
And the tribes were wiped out
F#
B
And the history books censored
C#m
A
A hundred years of your statesmen
C#m
A
have felt it's better this way
B
G#
Yet a few of the conquered
F#
B
have somehow survived
C#m
A
Their blood runs the redder
C#m
A
Though genes have been paled
F#
B
To Craven's sad hills
C#m
A
The wounded, the losers,
C#m
A
the robbed sing their tale
B
G#
From Los Angeles County to
F#
B
upstate New York
C#m
A
The white nation fattens
C#m
A
while others grow lean
B
G#
Oh, the tricked and evicted
F#
B
they know what I mean
F#
B
E
My country 'tis of thy people
B
A
F#
B
you're dy ing
Verse 4
B
G#
The past it just crumbled,
F#
B
the future just threatens
C#m
A
Our lifeblood shut up in
C#m
A
your chemical tanks
B
G#
And now here you come,
F#
B
bill of sale in your hand
C#m
A
And surprise in your eyes,
C#m
A
that we're lacking in thanks
B
G#
F#
For the blessings of civilization
C#m
A
The lessons you've taught us
C#m
A
The ruin you've wrought us
B
G#
Oh, see what our trust in
F#
B
America's bought us?
F#
B
My country 'tis of thy
A
F#
B
people you're dy ing
Verse 5
B
G#
Now that the pride of the
F#
B
sires receives charity
C#m
A
Now that we're harmless
C#m
A
and safe behind laws
F#
B
G#
Now that my life's to
F#
B
be known as your heritage
C#m
A
C#m
Now that even the graves
B
G#
Now that our own chosen
F#
B
way is a novelty
C#m
A
Hands on our hearts
C#m
A
We salute you your victory
F#
B
G#
Choke on your blue,
F#
B
white and scarlet hypocrisy
C#m
A
Pitying the blindness that
C#m
A
you never see
B
G#
That the eagles of war whose
F#
B
wings lent you glory
C#m
A
They were never no more
C#m
A
than carrion crows
B
G#
Pushed the wrens from their nest
C#m
A
The mockingbird sings it
C#m
A
It's all that she knows
B
G#
"Oh, what can I do?",
F#
B
say a powerless few
C#m
A
With a lump in your throat
C#m
and a tear in your eye
A
B
Can't you see that their
G#
F#
B
poverty's profiting you?
F#
B
My country 'tis of thy
E
B
A
F#
people you're dying
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