Youtube link: https://youtu.be/xDzJcaT-OMU [Intro] e|---- |----1--------|----1----------|----1----------|----1--------| B|-----|----3--------|----3----------|----3----------|----3--------| D|-----|-0---------0-|-0---------0-3-|-0---------0-3-|-0---------0-| A|-0-3-|-------0-3---|-------0-3-----|-------0-3-----|-------0-3---| |-----|------------|------------|------------|------------| [Verse 1] Out on the great plains long sacred ridge Two men lay dying in the sun One man would pay for this crime he never did Hoping that some day the truth would come When they pushed the proud Dakota Off their treaty land Waged a war that never could be won Til they planted that smoking gun [Verse 2] Oh the misery of these people hung on Leonard Pelletier’s hand We live like shadows he said Once we were the keepers of this glorious land Now we’re either silenced or dead They see an indian coming Holding their flag upside down Nobody cares that justice is done That’s why they planted that smoking gun [Bridge] And when you’re lying in your bed at night Watching the moon rise overhead Think of the ways that our people disappear Leaving nothing but the voices of the dead [Instrumental] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [Verse 3] Seven sacred arrows four medicine men Scattered underneath the sky Watching their people on the courthouse steps Hear their people cry And they watched the lightning flash Heard the thunder rolling on Moon was blue and crimson was the sun The day they planted that smoking gun [Verse 4] Oh Abel and Cain raised many a daughter and son Some went to right some went to wrong Late in the darkness when they look into their hearts Each sees the mark of the other one You can hide behind high office Life of the side you’re on Someday you will pay for what you’ve done When they planted that smoking gun [Outro] Oh when they planted that smoking gun (when they planted that smoking gun) Oh when they planted that smoking gun (when they planted that smoking gun) Oh when they planted that smoking gun (when they planted that smoking gun) | | | | | | | |