After Columbus                                                           

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D      Bm x2          After Columbus x2

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D        Bm             After Columbus    crossed the sea

G  D  A                 the People             were soon to see

G    Bm  G            their homeland      completely shrink

D  A  G D             as the white man    brought their new world to the brink.

D      Bm x2

 

D        Bm             Deer skin teepees  and moccasins,

G  D  A                 painted faces         on skin like cinnamon,

G    Bm  G            faded away            like a long gone day

D  A  G D             as the white man    brought their new world disarray.

D      Bm  D          After Columbus

 

F#m            As Earth keeps gettin' eaten      it just don't taste the same.

E                 The cinnamon is gone,              replaced by acid rain.

F#m            Stained and maimed with blood and pain. Replacing Eden with what's insane.

E                 The new world's                       not the same

D    Bm        since the cinnamon was slain.

D      Bm     After Columbus x2

 

D        Bm             Hundreds of tribes.          The People thrived.

G  D  A                 If only we still had          such rooted lives.

G    Bm  G            But suddenly,                 their lives were seized

D  A  G D             as the white man             brought their new world new disease.

D      Bm     x2

 

D        Bm             Our Mother Earth           gave all of us birth.

G  D  A                 Every color’s                  the same worth

G    Bm  G            but the blacks and reds    lost their heads

D  A  G D             as the white man             brought their new world lots of dread.

D      Bm  D          After Columbus

 

F#m            As Earth keeps gettin' eaten,     beaten down again

E                 by the hands of men                  killin' the cinnamon

F#m            (tore, made sore in war. A horror.)      Raping the land and so much, so much more.

E                 The new world's                       not the same

D      Bm      since the cinnamon was slain.

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F#m            Cinnamon or sin of men?         

E                 Cinnamon

F#m            or sin of men?                         

E                 The new world's                       not the same

D      Bm      since the cinnamon was slain.

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