Gold Rush Brides by 10,000 Maniacs
from the album 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged
>Chord shapes :
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>Gm 355333
>F 133211
>C/E XX2013
>G/B X2003X
>G7sus4/DXX0011
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>Intro : Gm F C
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> F C/E C G/B Am C
> Follow the typical signs, the hand painted lines down prairie roads
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> F C/E C G/B Am
C
> Pass the lone church spire, pass the talking wire from where to
who knows?
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> Gsus4/D F C F C/E
> There's no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the
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> C G/B Am C F C/E
> wild western plains. Where a man could drift in legendary myth by
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> C G/B Am C G7sus4/D F C
> roaming over spaces The land was free
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> G7sus4/D F C Gm
> and the price was right Dakota on the wall is a
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> F C Gm F
> white robed woman tall yet maidenly. Such power in her hand as she
hails
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> C Gm F
> the wagon man's family. I see Indians that crawl through this
mural that
>
> C
> recalls our history.
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>Verse 2: Who were the homestead wives? Who were the gold rush brides?
> Does anybody know? Do their works survive their yellow fever lives in
> pages they wrote? The land was free yet it cost their lives.
> In miner's lust for gold a family's house was bought and sold,
piece by piece.
> A widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name, so painfully.
> In letters mailed back home, her Eastern sisters they would moan as
they
> would read
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> Gm F C
> accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness, and grief
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> Gm F C
> accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness, and grief (repeat
several times)
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>Ending : Gm F C
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