SONG, LYRICS & TABS

Artist:	Cowboy Junkies
Album:	Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
Date:	1993
Title:	Pale Sun

Am               Em
Fifty miles from Lakota territory
C              Em             Am
Cheyenne scalp hangs from his belt
Am              Em
Found him alone washing in the Bighorn
  C                 Em         Am
a steady aim and he bagged his game


Dm                     Am
Pale sun falls without contest
Dm               Am
Here is obedient darkness
Em            Am
He will not return


Am              Em
White Cadillac, white man at the wheel,
C                  Em        Am
white faces on the mountain, wounds that will never heal
Am                     Em
Black clouds overhead, old man says looks like rain
C                          Em
Thieves' Road winds to the Black Hills sign
     Am
says South Dakota, U.S.A.


Dm                             Am
Grass plains stretch to the horizon,
Dm                         Am
not a soul can be found on them
Em              Am
They will not return


Am                      Em  
Old rusted pickup and a mad dog in the yard,
C                      Em
purple paint peels but fails to reveal
    Am
the bitterness that grows inside
Am
Cloud of dust in the distance,
Em
strange knock beneath my hood
C                    Em
Is it better to have words left unsaid
        Am
than to have words misunderstood?


Dm                     Am
Pale sun falls without contest
Dm               Am
Here is obedient darkness
Em        Am
It will return
Em             Am
I know it will return
Em        Am
It will return