G                       D
No more beautiful moons may we spend on our land
         C                   D              G
In the north, the scarlet council talks of war
         G                               D
And the long knives have massacred the tribe that burned cold
           C               D           G
We're not welcome in our homeland anymore

         G                           D
No more songs of the hunters on the buffalo plain
         C                   D              G
No more smoke from sacred fires touch these hills
         G                           D
And the numbers of the people grow fewer every mile
         C                   D          G
And our children will not learn Great Spirit's will

                  C        G
There will be a trail of tears
                  C        Em
There will be a trail of pain
                  C         G                   D            Em
And Jackson will have the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
         C               D                G
But for us the trail is all that will remain


         G                           D
On the streets of rapid City On the road to Wounded Knee
         C                   D              G
There is whiskey for forgetting everything
         G                                  D
But the old ones say there may be time for learning from each other
     C               D              G
The way that it had once been meant to be

                  C        G
There's still a trail of tears
                  C        Em
There's still a trail of pain
           C             G              D            Em
Jackson's got the Mississippi and his twenty dollar bill
         C              D                G
But for us the trail is all that will remain
           C             G               D            Em
Jackson's got the Mississippi and his twenty dollar bill
        C               D                G
But how long will the trail of tears remain