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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