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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:01:44 -0800
From: Brandon <bder@ucla.edu>
Subject: Crd. for "Gold Rush Brides" by 10,000 Maniacs

>Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 19:14:54
>To: Jason
>From: Brandon <bder@ucla.edu>
>Subject: Crd. for "Gold Rush Brides" 
>
>Gold Rush Brides by 10,000 Maniacs
>from the album 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged
>
>
>Chord shapes :
>
>Gm      355333
>F       133211
>C/E     XX2013
>G/B     X2003X
>G7sus4/DXX0011
>
>
>Intro :  Gm     F     C
>
>                   F                      C/E           C   G/B    Am C
>        Follow the typical signs, the hand painted lines down prairie roads
>
>                 F                     C/E                     C    G/B  Am
C
>        Pass the lone church spire, pass the talking wire from where    to
who knows?
>
> Gsus4/D  F    C             F                    C/E    
>                  There's no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the 
>
>        C    G/B  Am C                F                     C/E

>        wild western plains.  Where a man could drift in legendary myth by  
>
>      C       G/B Am C         G7sus4/D    F     C
>        roaming over spaces                           The land was free 
>
>                G7sus4/D         F      C      Gm 
>        and the price was right             Dakota on the wall is a 
>
>        F                             C            Gm                       F
>        white robed woman tall yet maidenly.  Such power in her hand as she
hails
>
>                           C           Gm                              F    
>        the wagon man's family.  I see Indians that crawl through this
mural that
>
>                    C 
>        recalls our history.
>
>
>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
>
>      Gm                         F                       C
>        accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness, and grief
>
>      Gm                         F                        C
>        accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness, and grief  (repeat
several times)
>
>Ending :  Gm     F     C  
>