Kansas - Cheyenne Anthem from Leftoverture
Transcribed by Cory (coryp23@gmail.com). August 2011
| C G/B | Am Em | Dm F | C |
|--15-17-------12-|-----------|-------------------12-13-|-15--20--|
|--------15-------|-13-15 ----|----------12-13-15-------|---------|
|-----------------|-------12--|----12-14----------------|---------|
|-----------------|-----------|-15----------------------|---------|
|-----------------|-----------|-------------------------|---------|
|-----------------|-----------|-------------------------|---------|
CG/BAm
From the mountains to the sun
CG/BAm
Life has only just begun
GBm
We wed this land and pledged
DEsus
Our souls to meet it's end
CG/BAm
Life has only just begun
CG/BAm
Here my people roam the earth
CG/BAm
In the kingdom of our birth
GBmDEsus
Where the dust of all our horses hides the sun
CG/BAmD susDus2
We are mighty on the earth, on the earth
Dm
You have come to move me
BbEm
Take me from my ancient home
Bm
Land of my fathers I can't leave you now
C
We will share it with you
DBmC
No man owns this earth we're on
EGmDm
Now the wheels are rolling
BbEm
Hear the howling winds of war
Bm
It's my destiny to fight and die
C
But is there no solution
DBmCEm
Can we find no other way, Lord, let me stay
DDsus2
Under the endless sky
DDsus2
And the earth below
F#7BmF#m
Here I was born to live
DmAmBbC
And I will never go, oh no
DmC
But we cannot endure
DmG
Like the earth and the mountains
DmC
Life is not ours to keep
DmG
For a new sun is rising
Gm | C | Gm | C |
Gm | C | Em | A |
Em | A | Em | A7 | Dm
into long instrumental section
CG/BAm
Soon these days shall pass away
CG/BAm
For our freedom we must pay
GDEsus
All our words and deeds are carried on the wind
CG/BAmBb
In the ground our bodies lay, here we'll stay
Outro:
(hopefully this makes sense, 3 bars 4/4, 2 bars 3/4 and another
4/4 bar, then repeat. ending on Bb at the last repeat. The slash
chords are just following the bass line)
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Bb Bb/A Gm Gm/Bb | Eb Eb/Bb Dm |
Cm Eb /Bb Db | Fm |
Bb Fm | Gb Ab |
Bb Bb/A Gm Gm/Bb | Eb Eb/Bb Dm |
Cm Eb /Bb Db | Fm |
Bb Fm | Gb Ab |
Bb Bb/A Gm Gm/Bb | Eb Eb/Bb Dm |
Cm Eb /Bb Db | Fm |
Ohhhhhhhohhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Bb Fm | Gb Ab | Bb