G                      Em
No more beautiful moons may we spend on our lands
       C                 D                 G  D
In the north the scarlet councils talks of war  
        G                              Em
And the long knives have massacred the tribe and burned
corn
          C              D            G
We're not welcome in our homeland any more

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

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

R: There will be a trail of tears... 

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

                 C     D  G
There is still a trail of tears
                 C     D  Em  Em/G
There is still a trail of pain  
                C             G             C       G
And Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
        C               D       G
But for us the trail of tears remain
            C             G             C        G
Jackson has got the Mississippi and the twenty dollar bill
        C             D                G
But how long will the trail of tears remain