Jenny Wind

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Her father was a man who knew no fences
    Am                        Em
Her mother was a woman of the trail
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But Jenny Wind was born into a new world
G7                 C
When the white man came


Am                   Em
Jenny was taught the old ways
        Am                            Em
And she learned to speak her father's tongue
         F                        C
When she died, she was one of the last ones
        G7                   C
And the earth covered up her bones


Am                    Em
Jenny Wind was born a wild thing
  Am                       Em
A sister to coyote and the sun
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But they gave her a dress of calico
         G7              C
And they named her Jenny Wind


        Am                              Em
But the white man's ways, they followed her
        Am                             Em
She was buried 'neath a marker made of stone
           F                     C
And on her grave they carved her pretty name
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"Here lies the Indian, Jenny Wind"


BRIDGE:
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But they say her soul flies free
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Caring for the weary and the lost
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In the forest deep and quiet
     G7                       C
All around the grave of Jenny Wind


Am                      Em
I met Jenny on a summer night
Am                    Em
Walking in the Placer County
  Am              Em           F
I stumbled on her grave in the forest there
G7               C
So all alone and still


  Am                           Em
I wondered if she cared that I found her
Am                   Em
Lying so hidden and alone
  F                                C
I wondered who she was before they named her
     G7            C
"The Indian, Jenny Wind"


    Am                   Em
The silence grew till it touched me
    Am                              Em
And held me like the words upon the stone
    Am            Em          F
And for the first time I was afraid
G7                      C
I would not find my way home


  Am                             Em
I ran from her as the night grew darker
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I dropped my glasses and I took a fall
         F                C
Lost and blind, somehow I found them
      G7                     C
Lying folded on her grave so small


BRIDGE:
      F                G7         C
And I believe that her soul flies free
       F             G7            C
And it cares for the weary and the lost
Am                     F
In the forest deep and quiet
     G7                       C
All around the grave of Jenny Wind