In My Tribe

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[Verse 1]
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In Monument Valley we ride
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Myself and my Navajo guide
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I'm moved by the majesty that lives 
here in this place
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His native home, the dry desert of
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 his race

[Verse]
                   Em             
I don't know these mesas or these 
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lands
                          Em       
Like the fields my mother ploughed 
           Am    G
beside her dad
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And I hold every story that her 
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father told to me
  Am       Em              Am
As dear as myths of the Anasazi

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[Verse]
               Em                
We ride on and sing our peoples' 
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songs
                       Em          
From roots that run as deep as they
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 do long
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And although I was born here and 
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raised in this nation
             Am            Em  
The blood is strong in the first 
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generation

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[Verse]
   Am          Em           Am
My grandmother swept a dirt floor
              Em         Am
As the Navajo did here before
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Kayenta and Kerry may be wide water 
apart
           Am          Em         
But we're alike in the deep core 
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of the heart

[Verse]
                  Em              
I've seen the sun set at The Sun's 
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Eye
                    Em        Am
Left an echo in The Hogan nearby
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A song of my people that my mother 
gave to me
            Am       Em        Am
In my tribe music is blood memory
Am       Em        F
Music is blood memory

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