Ballad of Ira Hayes - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
I leave you a link here, instead of summing up this human tragedy: IRA HAYES.Peter LaFarge, himself of indian origin, died in '64 - only a few years after he wrote this song. It's been made famous by Buffy Saint-Marie, Bob Dylan and especially by Johnny Cash - who recorded several of LaFarge's songs when he cut the album "Bitter Tears" in 1964. Johnny himself pondered about having cherokee ancestors, but sorry Johnny: your origin was european, mainly irish.
G G7 C gather round me people there's a story I would tell D7 G bout a brave young Indian you should remember well G G7 C from the land of the Pima indians a proud and noble band G G/F# Em A7 D7 G who farmed the Phoenix Valley in Arizona land G G7 C call him drunken Ira Hayes he won't answer anymore D7 G not the whiskey drinking Indian nor the marine that went to war
Play the "Heroes Salute" to start and end with, and take your bloody caps off.
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